Dorion Sagan

Dorion Sagan
Biografía
Nacemento	1959 (65/66 anos)
Actividade
Ocupación	escritor de ciencia
Familia
Pais	Carl Sagan e Lynn Margulis
Irmáns	Jeremy Sagan; Nick Sagan; Sasha Sagan

Dorion Sagan, nado en 1959, é un autor, ensaísta, escritor de ficción e teórico norteamericano de Madison, Wisconsin. Escribiu e é coautor de libros sobre cultura, evolución, historia e filosofía da ciencia.

Vida persoal

Dorion é fillo do físico Carl Sagan e da bióloga Lynn Margulis, irmán do empresario Jeremy Sagan, e medio irmán do escritor Nick Sagan (fillo de Linda Salzman) e da cineasta Sasha Sagan e Samuel Sagan (fillos de Ann Druyan).

Cosmic Apprentice: Dispatches from the Edges of Science (2013) ISBN 978-0-8166-8135-8
Lynn Margulis: The Life and Legacy of a Scientific Rebel (2012, Sciencewriters Books) ISBN 1603584463
Death and Sex (libro dous en un con Tyler Volk, 2009) ISBN 1-60358-143-X
Biospheres: Metamorphosis of Planet Earth (1990) ISBN 0-07-054426-3
Notes from the Holocene: A Brief History of the Future (2007) ISBN 1-933392-32-0
Cooking with Jesus: From the Primal Brew to the Last Brunch (2001) ISBN 1-58898-160-6
The Sciences of Avatar (2010) ASIN B004089DDI

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

Cracking the Aging Code: The New Science of Growing Old - And What It Means for Staying Young (2016 - with Josh Mitteldorf)
Up From Dragons: The Evolution of Human Intelligence (2002 - con John Skoyles)
Within the Stone: Nature's Abstract Rock Art (2004 - texto parcial a libro de fotografías de Bill Atkinson)
Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism (2006 - prefacio a libro de David Mills)
Darwin's Unfinished Business: The Self-Organizing Intelligence of Nature (2011 - con Simon G Powell)

"Möbius Trip: The Technosphere and Our Science Fiction Reality" Technosphere Magazine (2017)
"Metametazoa: Biology and Multiplicity" (1992 - In Incorporations: Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Jonathan Crary e Sanford Kwinter, editores, 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 York Times [1])
"The Beast with Five Genomes" (2001 - con Lynn Margulis - Natural History, xuño, pp. 38–41)
"The Postman Already Always Rings Twice: Fragments for an Understanding of the Future" (2004 Cabinet: A Quarterly of Art and Culture, pp. 23–27)
"Gradient-Reduction Theory: Thermodynamics and the Purpose of Life" (2004 - with Jessica H. Whiteside. In Scientists Debate Gaia: The Next Century MIT Press)
"A Brief History of Sex" (2007 - Cosmos [Australia], xuño/xullo, pp. 50–55)
"Evolution, Complexity, and Energy Flow" (2008 - Back to Darwin: A Richer Account of Evolution John B. Cobb Jr., Editor, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, pp. 145–156)
"What is the Cultural Relevance of Bacteria?" (2009 - Sputnik Observatory) [2]

"The Tchaikovsky Dream Continuum" Cabinet, Issue 54 The Accident (Summer 2014)
"The New Age 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 for Tea: The Northampton Review, winter, Vol. 1, Issue 1, "Gristle," pp. 5–24

"Dorion Sagan." (15 de xuño de 2005). Contemporary Authors Online. Consultado o 20 de maio de 2007.