
Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution
Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan
University of California Press
1997
Microcosmos brings together the remarkable discoveries of microbiology in the later decades of the 20th century and the pioneering research of Lynn Margulis to create a vivid new picture of the world that is crucial to humanity’s understanding of the future of the planet. Addressed to general readers, the book provides a beautifully written view of evolution as a process based on interdependency and their interconnectedness of all life on the planet.