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Introduced in the early 1970s, the idea was conceived by chemist and inventor James E. Lovelock and biologist Lynn Margulis. This new way of looking at global ecology and evolution differs from the classical picture of ecology as a biological response to a menu of physical conditions.
LYNN MARGULIS. Department of Biology, Boston University, 2, Cummington Street, Boston, Mass. USA. Search for more papers by this author
Jan 10, 2012 · Lynn Margulis, Distinguished Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, died on November 22nd 2011 at the age of 73. Margulis made a career advancing knowledge and theory in the field of cellular evolution, in particular the notion that eukaryotic cells — complex nucleus-containing cells such as our own — evolved as a result of ...
Nov 22, 2017 · Lynn Margulis (1938-2011) was a courageous scholar whose remarkable work on the role of symbiosis in evolution stands as a magisterial contribution of science.
Lynn Margulis was awarded the National Medal of Science for her outstanding contributions to understanding of the development, structure, and evolution of living things, for inspiring new research in the biological, climatological, geological and planetary sciences, and for her extraordinary abilities as a teacher and communicator of science to the public.
Lynn Margulis is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1983, received from William J. Clinton the Presidential Medal of Science in 1999.
A more detailed account of speculations on possible mechanisms is given in a forthcoming paper (Margulis & Lovelock, 1973). Our purpose is to stress that the present knowledge of the early environment suggests strongly that a first task of life was to secure the environment against adverse physical and chemical change.
