"Lynn Margulis fits this description, I think, extraordinarily well," he said. "Lynn is a scientist who was viewed skeptically for many years for the theory which she expounded." Bacow explained that ...

First Person | Lynn Margulis Courtesy of Lynn Margulis Despite being eligible for Social Security, geneticist and symbiogenesis proponent Lynn Margulis prefers doing what 10-year-old boys like to do: ...

Lynn Margulis, a biologist and professor at the University of Massachusetts (UMASS) Amherst, has been selected to be the seventh speaker in the Richard E. Snyder Presidential Lecture Series. The topic ...

Earth has been home to life for billions of years, but could the planet itself be considered a living thing? Most people ...

MICROCOSMOS Four Billion Years of Evolution from Our Microbial Ancestors. Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan. Summit Books, New York, 1986. 301 pp., illus. $17.95. For the past 20 years, Lynn Margulis has ...

The life and ideas of radical scientist Lynn Margulis. Director John Feldman Genre Documentary Original Language English Release Date (Streaming) Jan 16, 2019 Runtime 2h 24m ...

In the 1970s, chemist James Lovelock and microbiologist Lynn Margulis put forth a bold theory: The Earth is a giant living organism. When a mammal is hot, it sweats to cool itself off.

The mitochondrion, Margulis said, likely originated from a class of microbes known as alphaproteobacteria, a diverse group that today includes the bacterium responsible for typhus and another one ...

That's not surprising given that Professor Margulis was once married to cosmologist Carl Sagan, who knew Professor Lovelock, and suggested his wife connect with him. "Lynn believed Gaia is run by ...

Lynn Margulis. On the C-SPAN Networks: Lynn Margulis is a Professor for Microbiology in the University of Massachusetts, Amherst with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance ...