What is life? - Hardcover

Dorion Sagan; Lynn Margulis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0297833278 ISBN 13: 9780297833277

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1995

Synopsis

An exploration of what it means to be alive--by a biologist and science writer--spans disciplines from astronomy to the history of science and encompasses germs and geometry as well as birds and bees. 15,000 first printing. Newbridge, Natural Science, Library of Science, Astronomy, & Reader's Subscription.

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From the Inside Flap:

In What Is Life? Margulis and Sagan have rephrased the answer to Schrödinger’s brilliant question by means of a new and spirited explanation of the emergent levels of biological organization. . . . Theirs is a conceptual framework likely to influence future introductions to biology.” E. O. Wilson

A witty, exuberant panorama of life that elaborates the place of symbiosis in evolution.” Mary Catherine Bateson

This splendid book shows how much more there is to life than mere reductionist biology. Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan tread faithfully in Erwin Schrödinger’s footsteps and are his true successors.” James E. Lovelock

About the Author:

Lynn Margulis is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of more than one hundred articles and ten books, including Symbiosis and Cell Evolution (second edition 1993). Dorion Sagan, general partner of Sciencewriters, is the author of Biospheres (1990). Together they are the authors of Microcosmos (California, 1996), What Is Sex? (1990), Garden of Microbial Delights (1995), and Mystery Dance (1991).

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0297833278
• ISBN 13: 9780297833277
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208