Liaisons of Life
Автор:
Tom Wakeford, 224 стр., ISBN:
9780471399728
Advance Praise for Liaisons of Life "The complexity of life has forced on biologists a less detached approach than is usual in science. Their feeling for the organism conflicts with their dispassionate reduction of its DNA sequence. Tom Wakeford?s fine book movingly captures the consequence of this tension on scientists and politicians in his history of the concept of symbiosis. All scientists should read it."––James Lovelock, author of the Gaia Hypothesis "A thoroughly readable look at the history of one of biological science?s greatest ideas . . . Symbiosis is clearly an idea whose time has come, and Tom Wakeford helps us understand why."––Roger Knutson, author of Fearsome Fauna "Thanks to Tom Wakeford for his tales of life as a long adventure in partnership, and for his stories of people who pioneered that idea. With a true naturalist?s eye and a store of engaging anecdotes, he shows how the concept of symbiosis has moved from the fringe of science to its...
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