5. The World Egg and the Ouroboros: Two Models for Theoretical Biology

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. List of Plates and Figures xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction: Earth, Life, and System 1
6. 1. Life on a Margulisian Planet: A Son’s Philosophical Reflections 13
7. 2. The RNA/Protein World and the Endoprebiotic Origin of Life 39
8. 3. Exobiology at NASA: Incubator for the Gaia and Serial Endosymbiosis Theories 80
9. 4. On Symbiosis, Microbes, Kingdoms, and Domains 105
10. 5. The World Egg and the Ouroboros: Two Models for Theoretical Biology 127
11. 6. The Planetary Imaginary: Gaian Ecologies from Dune to Neuromancer 151
12. 7. Bringing Cell Action into Evolution 175
13. 8. Sustainable Development: Living with Systems 203
14. 9. Bovine Urbanism: The Ecological Corpulence of Bos urbanus 225
15. 10. Symbiotism: Earth and the Greening of Civilization 250
16. Notes 269
17. References 301
18. List of Contributors 333
19. Index 337