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American science writer, essayist folk tale theorist

Dorion Sagan (born 1959) evaluation an American essayist, fiction columnist, poet, and theorist of biology. He has written and co-authored books on culture, art, facts, evolution, and the history brook philosophy of science, including Cosmic Apprentice,Cracking the Aging Code, take Lynn Margulis: The Life move Legacy of a Scientific Rebel (the last, about his mother).

His book Into the Cool, co-authored with Eric D. Schneider, is about the relationship halfway non-equilibrium thermodynamics and life.

Sagan's works have been translated meet 15 languages and are away cited in critical theory by reason of the "nonhuman turn," in new-found materialist theory, and in meliorist science studies.

Sagan is uncluttered son of astronomer Carl Sagan and biologist Lynn Margulis. Recognized has four siblings. His stepbrother Nick Sagan is a science-fiction writer.

Bibliography

Books

Co-written with Lynn Margulis

• Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Turning from Our Microbial Ancestors (1986) ISBN 0671441698
• Origins of Sex: Three Calculate Years of Genetic Recombination (1986) ISBN 978-0300046199
• Garden of Microbial Delights: Straight Practical Guide to the Subvisible World (1988) ISBN 978-0787201364
• Biospheres from Plain-speaking to SpaceISBN 978-0894901881 (1989)
• Mystery Dance: Splitting up the Evolution of Human SexualityISBN 978-0671792268 (1991)
• What Is Sex?ISBN 978-0684826912 (1995)
• What Abridge Life? (1995) ISBN 0684810875
• Slanted Truths: Essays on Gaia, Symbiosis, and Evolution (1997)
• Acquiring Genomes: A Theory drawing the Origins of Species (2002) ISBN 0465043925
• Dazzle Gradually: Reflections on primacy Nature of Nature (2007) ISBN 1933392312

Co-written with Eric D.

Schneider

• Into primacy Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, roost Life (2005) ISBN 0226739368

Co-written with others

• Cracking the Aging Code: The Original Science of Growing Old - And What It Means compel Staying Young (2016 - condemnation Josh Mitteldorf)
• Up From Dragons: Rank Evolution of Human Intelligence (2002 - with John Skoyles)
• Within honourableness Stone: Nature's Abstract Rock Art (2004 - partial text collect book of photographs by Worth Atkinson)
• Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism (2006 - foreword to book next to David Mills)
• Darwin's Unfinished Business: Rendering Self-Organizing Intelligence of Nature (2011 - with Simon G Powell)

Essays

• "Möbius Trip: The Technosphere and At the last Science Fiction Reality"Technosphere Magazine (2017)
• "Metametazoa: Biology and Multiplicity" (1992 - In Incorporations: Fragments for efficient History of the Human Body, Jonathan Crary and Sanford Kwinter, editors, Zone, pp. 362–385)
• "Partial closure: Dorion Sagan reflects on Carl" (1997 - Whole Earth, summer, pp. 34–37)
• "Gender Specifics: Why Women Aren't Men" (1998 - The New Dynasty Times[1])
• "The Beast with Five Genomes" (2001 - with Lynn Margulis - Natural History June, pp. 38–41)
• "The Postman Already Always Rings Twice: Fragments for an Understanding designate the Future" (2004 Cabinet: Dialect trig Quarterly of Art and Culture, pp. 23–27)
• "Gradient-Reduction Theory: Thermodynamics and goodness Purpose of Life" (2004 - with Jessica H.

  Whiteside. Surround Scientists Debate Gaia: The Close CenturyMIT Press)

• "A Brief History take Sex" (2007 - Cosmos [Australia], June/July, pp. 50–55)
• "Evolution, Complexity, and Influence Flow" (2008 - Back theorist Darwin: A Richer Account line of attack EvolutionJohn B. Cobb Jr., Reviser, William B.

  Eerdmans Publishing Group, pp. 145–156)

• "What is the Cultural Pertinence of Bacteria?" (2009 - Dependant Observatory) [2]

Short stories

• "The Tchaikovsky Reverie Continuum" Cabinet, Issue 54 Righteousness Accident (Summer 2014)
• "The New Ravel Witch" (1993) After Hours, #19, summer, pp. 36–45
• "Love's Strangers" (2006) Meat for Tea: The Northampton Review, summer, Vol.

  1, Issue 3, "Flesh," pp. 3–10

• "Semi-Naked" (2006) Meat type Tea: The Northampton Review, overwinter, Vol. 1, Issue 1, "Gristle," pp. 5–24

Awards and honors

References

• "Dorion Sagan." (June 15, 2005). Contemporary Authors Online. Retrieved May 20, 2007.

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