Slanted Truths Essays on Gaia, Symbiosis and Evolution
This enticing collection is as devoted to the profound power of figures of speech as any oration of old Hellas. Metaphor reigns as we encounter the identification of our Earth as a Single, integrative organism, a tale told in image and passion. The discoveries and conjectures upon which this grand v...
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New York, NY
Springer New York
1997, 1997
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1997 |
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Table of Contents:
- I Memoirs
- 1 Sunday with J. Robert Oppenheimer
- 2 The Red Shoe Dilemma
- II Symbiosis and Individuality
- 3 Marriage of Convenience
- 4 Swimming Against the Current
- 5 The Uncut Self
- 6 Power to the Protoctists
- 7 From Kefir to Death
- 8 Kingdom Animalia: The Zoological Malaise From a Microbial Perspective
- 9 Speculation on Speculation
- III Gaia
- 10 The Atmosphere as Circulatory System of the Biosphere-The Gaia Hypothesis
- 11 Gaia and Philosophy
- 12 The Global Sulfur Cycle and Emiliania Huxleyi
- 13 Descartes, Dualism, and Beyond
- 14 What Narcissus Saw: The Oceanic “EYE”
- 15 A Good Four-Letter Word
- 16 The BIOTA and GAIA: One Hundred Fifty Years of Support for Environmental Sciences
- 17 GAIA and the Colonization of Mars
- 18 Futures
- 19 A Pox Called Man
- IV Evolution and Evolutionists
- 20 Big Trouble in Biology: Physiological Autopoiesis versus Mechanistic neo-Darwinism
- 21 The Riddle of Sex
- 22 Words as Battle Cries-Symbiogenesis and the New Field of Endocytobiology
- 23 Science Education, USA: Not Science, Not Yet Education
- 24 An Epistemological Afterword
- References
- Professional Literature on Gaia
- Popular Literature on Gaia
- Contributors