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Gaia’s Microbiome

from Part V - Commentaries on Lovelock and Margulis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2022

Bruce Clarke
Affiliation:
Texas Tech University
Sébastien Dutreuil
Affiliation:
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Aix-Marseille University
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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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