Book contents
- Writing Gaia: The Scientific Correspondence of James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis
- Reviews
- Writing Gaia: The Scientific Correspondence of James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Table of Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Foreword by James Lovelock
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I 1970–1972
- Part II 1973–1979
- Part III 1980–1991
- Part IV 1992–2007
- Part V Commentaries on Lovelock and Margulis
- Darwinizing Gaia
- Gaia at the Margulis Lab
- Gaia and the Water of Life
- Gaia as a Problem of Social Theory
- Befriending Gaia: My Early Correspondence with Jim Lovelock
- Gaia’s Pervasive Influence
- Gaia’s Microbiome
- Tangled Up in Gaia
- Lovelock and Margulis
- Discovering Geology, Discovering Gaia
- Glossary of Names
- Glossary of Terms
- Bibliography
- Index
Gaia’s Microbiome
from Part V - Commentaries on Lovelock and Margulis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2022
- Writing Gaia: The Scientific Correspondence of James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis
- Reviews
- Writing Gaia: The Scientific Correspondence of James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Table of Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Foreword by James Lovelock
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I 1970–1972
- Part II 1973–1979
- Part III 1980–1991
- Part IV 1992–2007
- Part V Commentaries on Lovelock and Margulis
- Darwinizing Gaia
- Gaia at the Margulis Lab
- Gaia and the Water of Life
- Gaia as a Problem of Social Theory
- Befriending Gaia: My Early Correspondence with Jim Lovelock
- Gaia’s Pervasive Influence
- Gaia’s Microbiome
- Tangled Up in Gaia
- Lovelock and Margulis
- Discovering Geology, Discovering Gaia
- Glossary of Names
- Glossary of Terms
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
My first interaction with Lynn was when I took her Evolution course in the spring of 1978. I had started graduate school in the biology department at Boston University the previous fall, as a master’s student. The department had listed my field of interest as “Exobiology,” as I had used the term in my application essay. It was taken from the title of Cyril Ponnamperuma’s edited volume (Ponnamperuma 1972), that I had fortuitously discovered in the biology department library of my alma mater, Fordham University. But I honestly had no idea that Lynn was involved with NASA. When we met in her office to talk about my interests, I told her I wanted to look for evidence of life in meteorites. She responded that I needed to go work with Bart Nagy, who was then at the University of Arizona. Seeing as I had just moved to Boston, I wasn’t too keen on going anywhere else. Thankfully, Lynn took me on and I was accepted into the PhD program.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022