Slanted Truths: Essays on Gaia, Symbiosis and Evolution

Front Matter....Pages i-1
Front Matter....Pages 3-3
Sunday with J. Robert Oppenheimer....Pages 5-28
The Red Shoe Dilemma....Pages 29-32
Front Matter....Pages 33-33
Marriage of Convenience....Pages 35-46
Swimming Against the Current....Pages 47-58
The Uncut Self....Pages 59-73
Power to the Protoctists....Pages 75-82
From Kefir to Death....Pages 83-90
Kingdom Animalia: The Zoological Malaise from A Microbial Perspective....Pages 91-111
Speculation on Speculation....Pages 113-123
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
The Atmosphere as Circulatory System of the Biosphere— The Gaia Hypothesis....Pages 127-143
Gaia and Philosophy....Pages 145-157
The Global Sulfur Cycle And Emiliania Huxleyi ....Pages 159-169
Descartes, Dualism, and Beyond....Pages 171-183
What Narcissus Saw: The Oceanic “Eye”....Pages 185-200
A Good Four-Letter Word....Pages 201-206
The Biota and Gaia....Pages 207-220
Gaia and the Colonization of Mars....Pages 221-234
Futures....Pages 235-246
A Pox Called Man....Pages 247-261
Front Matter....Pages 263-263
Big Trouble in Biology....Pages 265-282
Front Matter....Pages 263-263
The Riddle of Sex....Pages 283-294
Words as Battle Cries— Symbiogenesis and the New Field of Endocytobiology....Pages 295-305
Science Education, USA....Pages 307-316
An Epistemological Afterword....Pages 317-319
Back Matter....Pages 321-368