Excerpt from the Foreword

"The Nature of Life is the antithesis of the ordinary textbook. Instead of facts to remember, or an attempt by one person or several to portray the final truth of a scientific field, the selections in this book show science in action, with its conflicts and quirks, its enlightenments and enchantments all reported in the first person. The book enables you to see how biology, like all science, is a human enterprise. . . . For the reader who comes to it with intellectual hunger, The Nature of Life: Readings in Biology presents a bountiful feast of rich ideas, from ancient to modern times."

—Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan, from the foreword to The Nature of Life: Readings in Biology

Lynn Margulis, recipient of the 1999 National Medal of Science, is currently a distinguished professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Dorion Sagan is general partner of Sciencewriters and author of numerous articles, essays, poems, and books.

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