Evolution by Association

Jan Sapp is a professor of Science Studies at York University, Canada. He is author of Beyond the Gene: Cytoplasmic Inheritance and the Struggle for Authority and Where the Truth Lies: Franz Moewus and the Origins of Molecular Biology.

• 1: Symbiosis: Evolution in Action2: The Messages of Mutualism3: Socially Constructing the Individual4: The Mystical Foundations of Symbiogenesis in Russia5: Gaia and WWI British Genesis Stories6: Germ Theory and Les Symbiotes in France7: The Pasteurization of Les Symbiotes8: Les Symbiotes Revisited9: Illusory Anthropomorphism and Verbal Phantoms10: Organismic Boundaries and Disciplinary Demarcation11: Molecular Reconstruction12: The Dull Edge of Ockham's Razor13: Is Nature Really Motherly?Concluding Remarks

'Sapp's book is not only a scholarly account of one of the most important, yet neglected, areas of 20th-century biology, but it may also be pointing the way to a major element of biology in the next millennium.'Tom Wakeford, University of York, New Scientist, December 1994