In hmolscience, Dorion Sagan (1959-) is an American science writer noted for being a popular scientific editorial co-author for a number of publications, 1995 to present, tending to surround the topic of the origin of life, thermodynamics, evolution, and purpose.
Overview
In 1995, Sagan co-authored What is Life with his mother Lynn Margulis, wherein the expound on endosymbiotic theory to explain the origin of life.
In 1997, Sagan and Margulis published What is Sex, and more simplified version of the former, on bacterial "sex", so to say.
In 2005, Sagan, together with American ecological thermodynamicist Eric Schneider, penned Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life, in which they outline a degrade-the-gradient thermodynamic meaning of life. [2]
In 2013, Sagan, in his Cosmic Apprentice, attempted to tackle evolution and entropy. [3]
Education
Sagan, the son of Carl Sagan and Lynn Margulis, seems to be mostly self-educated in the science. Sagan, in this end, has authored or co-authored numerous articles and 23 books translated into eleven languages.
References
1. (a) Dorion Sagan (About the Authors) – IntoTheCool.com.
(b) Margulis, Lynn and Sagan, Dorion. (1995). What is Life? New York: Simon & Schuster
(c) Margulis, Lynn and Sagan, Dorion. (1997). What is Sex? New York: Simon & Schuster.
2. Schneider, Eric D. and Sagan, Dorion. (2005). Into the Cool - Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
3. Sagan, Dorion. (2013). Cosmic Apprentice: Dispatches from the Edge of Science (abs). University of Minnesota Press.
Further reading
● Skoyles, John R. and Sagan, Dorion. (2002). Up From Dragons: The Evolution of Human Intelligence. New York: McGraw-Hill.
● Sagan, Dorion and Whiteside, Jessica W. (2004). “Gradient Reduction Theory: Thermodynamics and the Purpose of Life”, in: Scientists Debate Gaia: the Next Century (pgs. 173-86), MIT Press.
● Volk, Tyler and Sagan, Dorion. (2010). Death and Sex (thermodynamics, 7+ pgs). Chelsea Green Publishing.
External links
● Dorian Sagan – Wikipedia.
● Dorion Sagan’s Amazon Blog – Amazon.com.
