An Awkward Symbiosis :The Scientist [2007-04-01]


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An Awkward Symbiosis The biologist Lynn Margulis has led an eventful life: fighting for decades to push the endosymbiotic theory of organelle development into biology textbooks, sharing a brief marriage with cosmologist Carl Sagan, championing the Gaia theory, and in recent years, criticizing Neo-Darwinism and aspects of conventional science. Luminous Fish, self-published by Margulis' own imprint, attempts a