Description: Further DetailsTitle: Earth, Life, and SystemCondition: NewSubtitle: Evolution and Ecology on a Gaian PlanetISBN-10: 0823265242EAN: 9780823265244ISBN: 9780823265244Publisher: Fordham University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 07/01/2015Description: Exploring the broad implications of evolutionary theorist Lynn Margulis’s work, this collection brings together specialists across a range of disciplines, from paleontology, molecular biology, evolutionary theory, and geobiology to developmental systems theory, archaeology, history of science, cultural science studies, and literature and science. Addressing the multiple themes that animated Margulis’s science, the essays within take up, variously, astrobiology and the origin of life, ecology and symbiosis from the microbial to the planetary scale, the coupled interactions of earthly environments and evolving life in Gaia theory and earth system science, and the connections of these newer scientific ideas to cultural and creative productions.Dorion Sagan acquaints the reader with salient issues in Lynn Margulis’s scientific work, the controversies they raised, and the vocabulary necessary to follow the arguments. Sankar Chatterjee synthesizes several strands of current theory for the origin of life on earth. James Strick tells the intertwined origin stories of James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis and Margulis’s serial endosymbiosis theory. Jan Sapp explores the distinct phylogenetic visions of Margulis and Carl Woese. Susan Squier examines the epigenetics of embryologist and developmental biologist C. H. Waddington. Bruce Clarke studies the convergence of ecosystem ecology, systems theory, and science fiction between the 1960s and the 1980s. James Shapiro discusses the genome evolution that results not from random changes but rather from active cell processes. Susan Oyama shows how the concept of development balances an over-emphasis on genetic coding and other deterministic schemas. Christopher Witmore studies the ways in which a concentrated animal feeding operation, or CAFO, mixes up natural resources, animal lives, and human appetites. And Peter Westbroek brings the insights of earth system science toward a new worldview essential for a proper response to global change.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmContributor: Bruce Clarke (Edited by)Author: Bruce ClarkeGenre: Science Nature & MathTopic: Technology & Engineering, Language & ReferenceBook Series: Meaning SystemsRelease Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Earth, Life, and System
Title: Earth, Life, and System
Subtitle: Evolution and Ecology on a Gaian Planet
ISBN-10: 0823265242
EAN: 9780823265244
ISBN: 9780823265244
Release Date: 07/01/2015
Release Year: 2015
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: Bruce Clarke (Edited by)
Series: Meaning Systems
Book Title: Earth, Life, and System : Evolution and Ecology on a Gaian Planet
Number of Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication Year: 2015
Topic: Life Sciences / Ecology, Life Sciences / Biological Diversity, Life Sciences / Evolution, Gaia & Earth Energies, General, System Theory, Life Sciences / Biology
Item Height: 1.2 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit, Technology & Engineering, Science
Item Weight: 24.9 Oz
Author: Bruce Clarke
Item Length: 9.3 in
Book Series: Meaning Systems Ser.
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
