Our common descent 
Navigating the site:
Lynn Margulis, Symbiotic
Planet, A New Look at Evolution
,
(New York, Basic Books, 1998).
Prologue
“As a species we cling to the familiar comforting conformities of the mainstream.
However,’convention’ penetrates more deeply then we tend to admit. Even if we lack a proper name for and knowledge of the history of any specific philosophy or thought style, all of us are embedded in our own safe ‘reality.’ Our outlooks shape what we see and how we know. Any idea we conceive as fact of truth is integrated into an entire style of thought, of which we are usually unaware.”
Pp. 2-3.
1. Symbiosis Everywhere
2. Against Orthodoxy
3. Individuality by incorporation
4. The Name of the Vine
5. Life from Scum
6. Sex Legacy
7. Ashore
8. GaiaThis is a challenging book about the common origins of all life in the bacterial morass of some prehistoric age when life was infantile, infinitely varied and characterized by two facets: 1) the capacity to metabolize and 2) the capability of reproducing by binary fission.
Two patterns in living creatures?
Related Topics:
Concepts, defined
Diversity, biological defined
Genetic related materials (index)
On the Origin of Species by means of natural selection,
notes
