Durante la mayor parte de la Historia de la Vida en nuestro planeta, el paisaje viviente semejó una desolada y remota playa en la que la mirada no pudiera descubrir ni rastro de animales o plantas. Solamente...

Durante la mayor parte de la historia de la Tierra, la vida ha sido invisible. Las comunidades bacterianas han modelado la superficie y la atmósfera del planeta a lo largo de miles de millones de años....

A distinguished microbiologist explains the importance of symbiosis - where different organisms contribute to each other's support - and how this is changing our view of life on EarthLynn Margulis is...

Although Charles Darwin's theory of evolution laid the foundations of modern biology, it did not tell the whole story. Most remarkably, The Origin of Species said very little about, of all things, the...

In this groundbreaking book, Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan present an answer to one of the enduring mysteries of evolution -- the source of inherited variation that gives rise to new species. Random...