Table of Contents

Foreword by Roald Hoffmann Acknowledgements Part I n Mnemosyne: Red Shoe Conundrum (Lynn Margulis); Truth of My Father (Dorion Sagan); The Uncut Self (Dorion Sagan and Lynn Margulis). Part II n Chimera: Power to the Protoctists (Lynn Margulis); Prejudice and Bacterial Consciousness (Lynn Margulis); All for One (Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan); Speculation on Speculation (Lynn Margulis); Spirochetes Awake n Syphilis and Nietzscheis Mad Genius (Lynn Margulis); From Kefir to Death (Lynn Margulis); Welcome to the Machine (Dorion Sagan and Lynn Margulis); The Transhumans Are Coming (Dorion Sagan and Lynn Margulis);j Alien Enlightenment n Michael Persinger and the Neuropsychology of God (Dorion Sagan). Part III n Eros: The Riddle of Sex (Dorion Sagan and Lynn Margulis); An Evolutionary Striptease (Dorion Sagan); Vive la Difference (Dorion Sagan); Candidiasis and the Origin of Clowns (Dorion Sagan with Lynn Margulis). Part IV n Gaea: The Atmosphere, Gaiais Circulatory System (Lynn Margulis and James E. Lovelock); Gaia and Philosophy (Dorion Sagan and Lynn Margulis); The Global Sulfur Cycle and Emiliania huxleyi (Dorion Sagan); Descartes, Dualism, and Beyond (Dorion Saga, Lynn Margulis, and Ricardo Guerrero); What Narcissus Saw n The Oceanic iEyei (Dorion Sagan); The Pleasures of Change (Dorion Sagan and Eric D. Schneider). Readings Figure and table list Index

About the Author

"Lynn Margulis is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and received the Presidential Medal of Science in 1999. Among her many books are Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution; Symbiosis in Cell Evolution Microbial Communities in the Archean and Proterozoic Eons; What Is Life?; What Is Sex?; Acquiring Genomes: A Theory of the Origins of Species (last three with Dorion Sagan); and Five Kingdoms: An llustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth (with K. V. Schwartz). Margulis lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.Dorion Sagan is author of numerous articles and sixteen books translated into eleven languages, including Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life (with Eric D. Schneider) and Up from Dragons: Evolution of Human Intelligence (with John Skoyles). He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts."

Reviews

In Dazzle Gradually we have one of the great iconoclastic biologists of our time and her son, both excellent writers, firing ideas at us, reflecting, asking questions, making connections. 'Truth's superb surprise' is their gift to us - Roald Hoffman