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The 2002 Romer Lecture
Lynn Margulis
University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Lynn Margulis

"On the Origin of Species:
The Inheritance of Acquired Bacteria"

  One hundred forty years after the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, major issues remain unsolved:

  Lynn Margulis believes that symbiogenesis, an evolutionary consequence of symbiosis, is a major factor. Dr. Margulis will discuss the old problems of the origin of evolutionary change and show how genome acquisition and community analysis propel us toward a new Gaian view of life. Life, after all, is a planetary phenomenon, and Gaia may be understood as symbiosis as seen from space.

Friday, April 19, 2002, 8:00 p.m. Hepburn Auditorium

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