Lynn Margulis Dies
November 23, 2011
Lynn Margulis, 73, author of the theory that parts of our cells are derived from symbiotic bacteria, has died ( see the Web page of the University of Massachusetts.) Her ideas have all the romance and wonder of biblical prophecy.
Margulis was also known for her contributions to James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis that the living and non-living components of the Earth together comprise a self-regulating system.
“She was smart, creative, and promoter of a lot of wild ideas … and to her credit, some of them were even right,” “I think her greatest strength was her eagerness to step right out to the edge of science and push, push, push — sometimes futilely, but sometimes she really did succeed in pushing back the frontier a bit.”