Gives information on where to find and cultivate microbial organisms. "'Garden of Microbial Delights' takes the reader on an excursion of beauty, mystery and splendor through the world of microbes. Microbial organisms, which are neither animal nor plant, are the dominant and oldest forms of life on Earth. Their incessant growth, movement, chemical transformation, and death strongly and pervasively affect human life. These minute creatures are responsible...

Examines human sexuality and behavior as they attempt to trace its ancestral origins among reptiles, amphibians, fish, and other vertebrates.

A breathtaking account of the "unnatural" history of consciousness and human intelligence. Taking its cue from The Dragons of Eden, Carl Sagan's 1977 classic and New York Times bestseller, Up from Dragons traces the development of human intelligence back to its animal roots in an attempt to account for the vast differences between our species and all those that came before us. In a book that will spark a storm of debate, neuroscientist John Skoyles...

In a lusciously illustrated format, a noted microbiologist and her son give multifaceted answers to the title's question. Essentially, any given cell is a window to the past through which Margulis and her scientific colleagues can view early environmental conditions. The initial chapters describe what life is at its most minimal--a self-organizing, self-preserving, and self-reproducing system of matter--then the authors move into the major division...