Dimensions
129 x 196 x 16mm
A New Look At Evolution
Although Charles Darwin's theory of evolution laid the foundations of modern biology, it did not tell the whole story. 'The Symbiotic Planet' shows that symbiosis, members of different species living in physical contact with each other, is crucial to evolutionary novelty. Ranging from bacteria to the Earth itself Margulis explains how our body cells evolved as symbiotic unions of different bacteria; how sex and death arose when failed attempts at cannibalism resulted in cell mergers of some of our smallest ancestors; and how dry land became forested only after symbioses of algae and fungi became woody plants.
