Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution

 
 

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.