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2 giorni fa · Research has shown that this ability is conferred not by the genes of the termite, but by bacteria living within them. Correspondingly, those bacteria rely on other, smaller bacteria living within them. This is the dizzyingly nested perspective that pioneering evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis first popularized as the “holobiont”.
2 giorni fa · Lynn Margulis brought this hypothesis back to attention more than 60 years later but the idea did not become fully accepted until supplementary data started to accumulate.
2 giorni fa · While the founders of Gaia theory understood themselves as advancing a scientific hypothesis to be sustained by empirical evidence, subsequent generations of scientists and philosophers intuit spiritual possibilities within Lovelock’s and Margulis’s work. Indeed, in a co-authored essay, Margulis and her son Dorian Sagan write,
3 giorni fa · In 1997, Dr. Lynn Margulis and Dr. Dorion Sagan, both evolutionists with impeccable scientific credentials, made the following admission: “More and more, like the monasteries of the Middle Ages, today’s universities and professional societies guard their knowledge.
1 giorno fa · Cette idée, développée par James Lovelock et Lynn Margulis dans les années 1970, décrit la Terre comme un superorganisme autorégulé. Controversé scientifiquement, le concept de Gaïa intéresse surtout Latour pour sa portée symbolique, et la puissance « mythologique » du terme.
4 giorni fa · Los intereses científicos y la energía intelectual de la bióloga Lynn Margulis (Chicago, 1938-Massachusetts, 2011) parecían no tener límite. Conocida ante todo por sus trabajos con las células eucarióticas, la hipótesis de Gaia y la simbiogénesis como fuerza rectora de la evolución, las investigaciones que Margulis llevó a ...
4 giorni fa · In ihrer Heimatstadt Speyer liest Charlotte Kerner aus ihrem neu erschienenen Buch "We are Volcanoes". Darin verknüpft sie die Lebensgeschichten der drei Biologinnen Rachel Carson, Lynn Margulis und Donna Haraway.
