1938 American biologist who developed the serial endosymbiotic theory to account for the evolution of nucleated cells and evolutionary novelty more generally.
Keywords: symbiosis; symbiogenesis; serial endosymbiotic theory (SET); gaia; prokaryotes
Margulis, Lynn
Helen J Power, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, London, UK
Published online: January 2006
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0003594
| Further Reading | |
| book Margulis L (ed.) (1970–1971) Origins of Life. 2 vols. New York: Gordon and Breach. | |
| book Margulis L (1981) Symbiosis in Cell Evolution : Life and its Environment on the Early Earth. Oxford: W.H. Freeman. | |
| book Margulis L (1998) The Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. | |
| book Margulis L and Sagan D (2002) Acquiring Genomes: A Theory of the Origins of Species. New York: Basic Books. | |
| book McMurray EJ (ed.) (1995) Notable Twentieth Century Scientists. Detroit: Gale Research. | |
