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Lynn Margulis (1938-2011) was an American evolutionary biologist who proposed the endosymbiotic theory of cell evolution and co-developed the Gaia hypothesis. She received many awards and honors, but also faced criticism and rejection for her unorthodox views.
Learn about Lynn Margulis, who developed the serial endosymbiotic theory of eukaryotic cell origin and collaborated with James Lovelock on the Gaia hypothesis. Explore her life, achievements, awards, and books on biology and science.
- Amy Tao
Dec 21, 2011 · Lynn Margulis was an independent, gifted and spirited biologist who learned as early as the fourth grade to “tell bullshit from ... real authentic experience”, as she put it in a 2004...
- James A. Lake
- lake@mbi.ucla.edu
- 2011
Some researchers answered no. Evolutionist Lynn Margulis showed that a major organizational event in the history of life probably involved the merging of two or more lineages through symbiosis. Symbiotic microbes = eukaryote cells?
Nov 25, 2011 · Lynn Margulis, a biologist whose work on the origin of cells helped transform the study of evolution, died on Tuesday at her home in Amherst, Mass. She was 73. She died five days after suffering...
Internationally renowned evolutionary biologist and author Lynn Margulis, a Distinguished University Professor of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a National Medal of Science recipient, died Nov. 22, 2011 at her home in Amherst. She was 73.
Nov 22, 2017 · Learn how American biologist Lynn Margulis (1938-2011) pioneered the study of symbiosis and its role in cell evolution and eukaryogenesis. Discover her contributions to science and her influence on planetary sciences and microbiome research.
