Lynn Margulis (born 1938) is a renowned theoretical biologist and professor of botany at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her research on the evolutionary links between cells containing nuclei (eukaryotes) and cells without nuclei...

Lynn Margulis is a theoretical biologist and professor of botany at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her research on the evolutionary links between cells containing nuclei (eukaryotes) and cells without nuclei (prokaryotes) led her to...

1938- American Geneticist American geneticist Lynn Margulis is noted for her investigations of the intricate, fundamental systems by which life creates and maintains itself on Earth. She is often regarded as the co-creator, with James Lovelock (1919-...

Dr. Lynn Margulis (born March 15, 1938) is an American biologist and University Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[1] She is best known for her theory on the origin of eukaryotic organelles, and her...

Despite being eligible for Social Security, geneticist and symbiogenesis proponent Lynn Margulis prefers doing what 10-year-old boys like to do: hiking, camping, exploring the wilds, reading. "I can't think of any greater punishment than a smoky bar," she says. "I've worked every Saturday night...

Wherever she looks--in the mud, the air, the cells of plants and animals, termite guts, or the tails of sperm--Lynn Margulis sees evidence of ancient microbial mergers or primary ongoing microbial activity sustaining life at all levels. Nineteen-year-old Lynn Sagan saw amoebae...