Origins of Sex: Three Billion Years of Genetic Recombination (Bio-Origins Series)

By Lynn Margulis

Book Overview

A fascinating and detailed examination of the evolution--and occasional devolution--of sexuality in microorganisms and more complex forms of life. Margulis and Sagan trace sex from its inauspicious... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300033400
• ISBN13: 9780300033403
• Release Date: August 1986
• Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1986
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Thought provoking

Excellent presentation of arguments, although some of the central ideas have been challenged since it's publication. Evoltionary ancestors of microtubules may have been found in pro-karyotes.

Another Hit for the Mother/Son Team

Well. I would not have been terribly suprised had this turned out to be a great book. Nonetheless, I was pleasently so when I realized I actually enjoyed it as much as Microcosmos. I don't know how much of which author went into what--and that does not really seem to matter. The ideas flow easily and evenly--the biology is straightforward and understandable, and the chronology seems (at least for me) easy to follow. In my humble opinion, another excellent book, and a must for any real thinkers library. I have mine..where's yours?