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Lynn Margulis: Natural Science
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Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan first published the controversial book Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution, in 1986. Although many of the ideas in Microcosmos are now widely accepted, Margulis is still a controversial figure in the biological sciences. In this, the third in a four-part interview with Astrobiology Magazine, she explains why she believes that the notion of species doesn't apply to bacteria, and why she rejects the separation of Archaea into a different domain of life from Bacteria.
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Here's an interesting opportunity: Lynn Margulis, the controversial scientist, is going on a 'blog tour' to promote her new imprint of science books called Sciencewriters Books. What does that mean? She's going to hang out for a little while on a few blogs and chat and answer questions. If you've wanted to have a conversation with the author of the endosymbiont theory and critic of neo-Darwinian theory, here's your chance.
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LYNN MARGULIS has, with great delight, transferred into the Department of Geosciences. She came to the now defunct Botany Department at UMASS in late 1988. When the old distinguished UMASS Department of Botany, chaired by James Walker, was overrun by zoologists, she continued to deplore the antiquated and inadequate "plant-animal dichotomy." She, like many of her botanical colleagues, suffered the inevitable loss of interest in the newly constituted Biology Department for nature, its live beings and their natural environments. She claims to be academically happiest amongst geologists and their ilk who never have to apologize for their dedication to field studies and concern for this solar system's third rocky planet. (Indeed Planet Earth, in her opinion, should change its name to "Planet Water").
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Effectively, Lynn Margulis contended that symbiosis, not chance mutation, was the driving force behind evolution and that the cooperation between organisms and the environment are the chief agents of natural selection -- not competition among individuals. She says that "Darwin's grand vision was not wrong, only incomplete. This was a little much to handle for some of her critics, and at first her theory was not accepted, especially in its original appearance alongside that of the Gaia Hypothesis:
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The Microcosmos Coloring Book, by Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988, 232 pp. Seashore, temperate forest, desert, karst, and park (including people) as habitats for microorganisms. Large format for photocopying, labeling, and coloring. Paper, $8.00. Sciencewriters.
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Lynn Margulis is too deep in science to notice what a mathematics-minded philosopher at a Bible seminary says about evolution. Dembski knows that and understands it. The chances that Margulis would respond are almost nil, and Dembski will be able to get away with mis-stating Margulis’ position for a long time. It’s a sure bet that few, if any, members of any state board of education have read Margulis, or know who she is or what her contribution is. Their only context will be what Dembski or the Discovery Institute claims.
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