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Lynn Margulis, Symbiotic Planet, A New Look at Evolution,

(New York, Basic Books, 1998).


Prologue

“As a species we cling to the familiar comforting conformities of the mainstream.

However,’convention’ penetrates more deeply then we tend to admit. Even if we lack a proper name for and knowledge of the history of any specific philosophy or thought style, all of us are embedded in our own safe ‘reality.’ Our outlooks shape what we see and how we know. Any idea we conceive as fact of truth is integrated into an entire style of thought, of which we are usually unaware.”

Pp. 2-3.


1. Symbiosis Everywhere
2. Against Orthodoxy
3. Individuality by incorporation
4. The Name of the Vine
5. Life from Scum
6. Sex Legacy
7. Ashore
8. Gaia

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Five Kingdom system


Related Topics:

Archaebacteria

Coevolution

Concepts, defined

Diversity, biological defined

Genetics

Genetic related materials (index)

On the Origin of Species by means of natural selection, notes

Taxonomy

World view, or weltanschauung