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At the crossroads of philosophy and science, the sometimes-dry topics of evolution and ecology come alive in this new collection of essays n many never before anthologized. Learn how technology may be a sort of second nature, how the systemic human fungus Candida albicans can lead to cravings for carrot cake and beer, how the presence of life may be why thereis water on Earth, and many other fascinating facts.The essay iMetametazoai presents perspectives on biology in a philosophical context, demonstrating how the intellectual librarian, pornographer, and political agitator Georges Bataille was influenced by Russian mineralogist Vladimir Vernadsky and how this led to his notion of the absence of meaning in the face of the sun n which later influenced Jacques Derrida, thereby establishing a causal chain of influence from the hard sciences to topics as abstract as deconstruction and postmodernism.
Contents
Foreword by Roald HoffmannAcknowledgementsPart I n Mnemosyne: Red Shoe Conundrum (Lynn Margulis); Truth of My Father (Dorion Sagan); The Uncut Self (Dorion Sagan and Lynn Margulis).Part II n Chimera: Power to the Protoctists (Lynn Margulis); Prejudice and Bacterial Consciousness (Lynn Margulis); All for One (Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan); Speculation on Speculation (Lynn Margulis); Spirochetes Awake n Syphilis and Nietzscheis Mad Genius (Lynn Margulis); From Kefir to Death (Lynn Margulis); Welcome to the Machine (Dorion Sagan and Lynn Margulis); The Transhumans Are Coming (Dorion Sagan and Lynn Margulis);j Alien Enlightenment n Michael Persinger and the Neuropsychology of God (Dorion Sagan).Part III n Eros: The Riddle of Sex (Dorion Sagan and Lynn Margulis); An Evolutionary Striptease (Dorion Sagan); Vive la Difference (Dorion Sagan); Candidiasis and the Origin of Clowns (Dorion Sagan with Lynn Margulis).Part IV n Gaea: The Atmosphere, Gaiais Circulatory System (Lynn Margulis and James E. Lovelock); Gaia and Philosophy (Dorion Sagan and Lynn Margulis); The Global Sulfur Cycle and Emiliania huxleyi (Dorion Sagan); Descartes, Dualism, and Beyond (Dorion Saga, Lynn Margulis, and Ricardo Guerrero); What Narcissus Saw n The Oceanic iEyei (Dorion Sagan); The Pleasures of Change (Dorion Sagan and Eric D. Schneider).ReadingsFigure and table listIndex
