Lynn Margulis (1938–2011)
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Lynn Margulis was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 5, 1938. She graduated from the University of Chicago at the age of 18. She received a master's degree in genetics and zoology from the University of Wisconsin and a Ph.D. in genetics from the University of California, Berkeley. She taught for 22 mehr anzeigen years at Boston University before joining the faculty at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1988. She was best known for her theory of species evolution by symbiogensis. The manuscript in which she first presented her findings was published in 1967 by the Journal of Theoretical Biology. An expanded version, with additional evidence to support the theory, became her first book entitled Origin of Eukaryotic Cells. Her other works include Symbiosis in Cell Evolution, Luminous Fish: Tales of Science and Love, Dazzle Gradually: Reflections on the Nature of Nature, and Mind, Life, and Universe: Conversations with Great Scientists of Our Time. She died five days after suffering a hemorrhagic stroke on November 22, 2011 at the age of 73. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Limits of life : proceedings of the Fourth College Park Colloquium on Chemical Evolution, University of Maryland,… (2012) 2 Exemplare
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- Margulis, Lynn
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Margulis, Lynn Petra Alexander
- Andere Namen
- Alexander, Lynn Petra (birth name)
- Geburtstag
- 1938-03-05
- Todestag
- 2011-11-22
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Sterbeort
- Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
- Wohnorte
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
California, USA - Ausbildung
- University of Chicago (AB)
University of Wisconsin-Madison (MS - Genetics and Zoology)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD - Genetics) - Berufe
- distinguished professor (Microbial Evolution and Organelle Heredity)
evolutionary biologist - Beziehungen
- Sagan, Carl (ex-husband)
Sagan, Dorion (Son)
Margulis, Jennifer (Daughter)
Margulis, Thomas N (ex-husband)
Glashow, Sheldon Lee (brother in law) - Organisationen
- University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Boston University - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- National Medal of Science (Biological Sciences ∙ 1999)
Darwin-Wallace Medal (2008)
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"In secret exercise of my perceived rights as a person of free will I snuck out of the University of Chicago eight-grade laboratory school, with its vastly inferior pool of potential boyfriends, and returned to the huge public high school where I had decided I belonged. I refused to stay another day in that lab school, where everything was so familiar and algebra was so hard. I was living in my parents' lovely South Shore Drive apartment and decided that running away was the only solution. Of course, I had no money, nowhere to go, and a rigid schedule of classes and duties."
Es kam wie es kommen mußte.
"Fury hit the fan when the high school administrators realized that my parents had no idea that I was not in the lab school; when I had told them that I was leaving I hadn't admitted that my parents didn't know. Of course my parents had not noticed the missing tuition bill. - Many teary sessions followed in and out of school."
Man bekommt aber einen Endruck, warum sich der charismatische Carl Sagan von dieser dickköpfigen jungen Dame angezogen gefühlt haben mag.
"At age fourteen I was lucky indeed to be accepted into the University of Chicago's special early entry program. Although three and a half years later I graduated with many acquisitions, including a liberal arts degree and a husband [Sagan], by far the most lasting was a thoroughgoing, finely nurtured critical scepticism. I cherish my University of Chicago education for its central teaching: one must always strive to distinguish bullshit from authenticity."
Obwohl das Buch nun schon ein paar Jahre alt ist (1998) bietet es einen immer noch aktuellen, allgemeinverständlichen, aber knapp gehaltenen (146 S.) Überblick sowohl über die Endosymbiontentheorie als auch über die Gaia-Hypothese. Ein klein wenig Grundwissen über beide Themen sollte man allerdings mitbringen. Der einzige Wermutstropfen ist die spärliche Ausstattung mit nur wenigen und durchgehend schwarzweißen Abbildungen. Beide, die serielle Endosymbiontentheorie (SET à la Margulis) und die Gaia-Hypothese, werden im Kontext ihrer historischen Entwicklung dargestellt. Insofern ist dies nicht nur ein Lehrbuch, sondern vielmehr ein Geschichtsbuch aus individueller Sicht – aber wie gesagt: man sollte sich wirklich für Biologiegeschichte interessieren.
Margulis ist von Grund auf Optimistin. Sie meint, die Erde wird auch mit so schädlichen Organismen wie Homo sapiens fertigwerden: "Gaia, a tough bitch, is not at all threatened by humans".
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