A profound insight by biologist Lynn Margulis helped me make some sense of what I was seeing. She postulated in 1967 that mitochondria descend from a bacterium that was engulfed by a larger ...

Microbiologist Lynn Margulis, for instance, revolutionized researchers’ understanding of the origins of complex life.

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

Lynn Margulis revolutionized evolutionary biology. She also promoted pseudoscientific theories of HIV transmission.

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: ...

One of the most mind-blowing and controversial Earth science concepts has to be the Gaia hypothesis. The idea was first […] ...

Lovelock’s greatest fame came from the Gaia theory he co-created with the US biologist Lynn Margulis in the early 1970s.

Few Earth science concepts are as controversial and enticing as the Gaia hypothesis — the idea, first introduced by chemist James Lovelock and microbiologist Lynn Margulis in the 1970s, that ...

Ina paper published in 1967, American evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis proposed the endosymbiotic theory, stating that 'approximately 1.5 billion years ago, primitive eukaryotes absorbed ...

The mythos around Gaia might even have delayed acceptance of Lovelock and Margulis’s ideas, but it also kept the public interested and Lovelock in demand.