Slanted Truths : Essays on Gaia, Symbiosis and Evolution /
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Copernicus,
1997.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 1997. |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.