Earth, Life, and System : : Evolution and Ecology on a Gaian Planet /

Earth, Life, and System : : Evolution and Ecology on a Gaian Planet / / ed. by Bruce Clarke.

Exploring the broad implications of evolutionary theorist Lynn Margulis's work, this collection brings together specialists across a range of disciplines, from paleontology, molecular biology, evolutionary theory, and geobiology to developmental systems theory, archaeology, history of science,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
MitwirkendeR:
Chatterjee, Sankar,
Clarke, Bruce,
Oyama, Susan,
Sagan, Dorion,
Sapp, Jan,
Shapiro, James A.,
Squier, Susan,
Strick, James,
Westbroek, Peter,
Witmore, Christopher,
HerausgeberIn:
Clarke, Bruce,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Meaning Systems
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.) :; 20 Black & White Illustrations 20 Color Illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Plates and Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Earth, Life, and System
  • 1. Life on a Margulisian Planet: A Son's Philosophical Reflections
  • 2. The RNA/Protein World and the Endoprebiotic Origin of Life
  • 3. Exobiology at NASA: Incubator for the Gaia and Serial Endosymbiosis Theories
  • 4. On Symbiosis, Microbes, Kingdoms, and Domains
  • 5. The World Egg and the Ouroboros: Two Models for Theoretical Biology
  • 6. The Planetary Imaginary: Gaian Ecologies from Dune to Neuromancer
  • 7. Bringing Cell Action into Evolution
  • 8. Sustainable Development: Living with Systems
  • 9. Bovine Urbanism: The Ecological Corpulence of Bos urbanus
  • 10. Symbiotism: Earth and the Greening of Civilization
  • Notes
  • References
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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