Dorion Sagan is a celebrated #writer, ecological #philosopher, and #author or co-author of twenty-five books, translated into fifteen languages. As an ecological theorist, he has been at the forefront of bringing our growing understanding of symbiosis as a major force in evolution into the intellectual mainstream, both within science and the humanities, and rethinking the human body as a “multispecies organism.” With Carl Sagan and Lynn Margulis, his parents, he is co-author of the entries for both “Life” and “Extraterrestrial Life” in the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Sagan's close collaborations with multiple scientists from different fields including evolution, ecology, and thermodynamics have helped usher in new, more integral and realistic biological approaches which recognize humanity as a very recent part of a four billion-year-old biosphere, with important implications for both medicine and the long-term viability of the human species as a planetary life form. Sagan has published with university presses (e.g., Yale, Harvard, Oxford, MIT, and the University of Chicago), including in anthologies edited by E. O. Wilson and Richard Dawkins in the sciences, and alongside luminaries such as John A. Wheeler, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Jean-Paul Sartre in humanities collections. He was called an “unmissable modern master” by Stephen Young in New Scientist; Nobel laureate Roald Hoffman tagged his book, Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life with Eric D. Schneider “fascinating”; and Melvin Konner, in The New York Times, wrote of Microcosmos, coauthored with long-time writing partner Lynn Margulis, that "this admiring reader of Lewis Thomas, Carl Sagan and Stephen Jay Gould has seldom, if ever, seen such a luminous prose style in a work of this kind." What is Life?, also coauthored with Margulis, was included (with Shakespeare and Billie Holiday) of “Mind-Altering Masterpieces” by the Utne Reader, and was called “A masterpiece of science writing” by Orion magazine.
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