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By Lynn Margulis

During this groundbreaking e-book, Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan current a solution to 1 of the iconic mysteries of evolution--the resource of inherited version that offers upward push to new species. Random genetic mutation, lengthy believed to be the most resource of version, is barely a marginal issue. because the authors reveal during this ebook, the extra very important resource of speciation, by means of a long way, is the purchase of latest genomes via symbiotic merger. the results of thirty years of delving right into a sizeable, often arcane literature, this can be the 1st ebook to head beyond--and show the critical barriers of--the "Modern Synthesis" that has ruled evolutionary biology for nearly 3 generations. Lynn Margulis, whom E. O. Wilson known as "one of the main winning man made thinkers in smooth biology," and her co-author Dorion Sagan have written a entire and scientifically supported presentation of a concept that at once demanding situations the assumptions we carry concerning the number of the residing global.

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Bion, Two Papers: “The Grid” and “Caesura” Interpretation is an essential factor, which, on the one hand, emerges from the patient’s associations in search of a deep, revealing meaning, while on the other hand, it finds in the analyst’s “floating attention” the proper state of mind to grasp their understanding, to reveal them. Out of this dynamic binary, interpretation catalyzes ideas and emotions, giving coherence to what was formerly vague and dispersed … (H. Poincaré, quoted by Bion, 1977a).

Concept without Intuition is empty” with his reference to verses 51 to 55 in Milton’s Introduction to the Third Book of Paradise Lost: So much the rather thou celestial light Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate, there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight we may understand that the genial poet, feeling that he was the container for this lightintuition, put himself into the right mental frame to see the contained and to reveal it to those unable to see for themselves.

At that precise moment, they hurl the rapid, treacherous harpoon. Dr. Bion remarked: “As oxygen is essential for the life of the body, truth is the same for the mind; but as the pirarucu in search of oxygen essential for its survival, exposes itself and risks death, the same happens to those who search for truth. They also become exposed and vulnerable. ” Another time I spoke about an airplane crash that had recently occurred. On a flight from Chicago to Los Angeles, a DC-10 had lost an engine, crashed, and exploded.

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