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Maybe you are the cool generation … If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.
Lynn Margulis
Born: March 5, 1938
Died: November 22, 2011 (aged 73)
Bio: Lynn Margulis was an American biologist, university professor, and author who developed a theory of the origin of eukaryotic organelles, and contributed to the endosymbiotic theory. She showed that animals, plants, and fungi originated from Protists. She also contributed to the development of the Gaia hypothesis with James Lovelock.
Known for:
- Symbiotic planet (1962)
- Microcosmos (1986)
- Symbiosis in cell evolution (1981)
- Five Kingdoms (1982)
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