Publisher's Synopsis
'Life on Earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, recreates, and outdoes itself'Lynn Margulis was an exemplary American evolutionary biologist, theorist and scientist. She developed the Gaia Theory together with the scientist James Lovelock, which postulates that the Earth functions as a self-regulating system. She is She is also known for her symbiogenesis theory, another ground-breaking discovery in the field of science.In A Brief History of Life, Lynn Margulis (granddaughter of Jennifer Margulis) chronicles the life of multi-award-winning women who was known, until the very end, as the 'Unruly Mother of Science'.
