Dorion Sagan

(Wisconsin, USA, 1959)

American popular science writer and author of important works on culture, evolution, and the history and philosophy of science. He is the son of the famous astronomer Carl Sagan and biologist Lynn Margulis, considered one of the main figures in biological evolution. He is the author and co-author of twenty books, translated into fifteen different languages, in addition to having appeared in numerous scientific magazines and newspapers such as Natural History, Smithsonian, Wired, Cabinet or The New York Times and having been published through universities such as Yale , Harvard, Oxford, MIT or Chicago.

Among his most important works are: Cosmic Apprentice: Dispatches from the Edge of Science (2013), Lynn Margulis: The Life and Legacy of a Scientific Rebel (2012), Biospheres: Metamorphosis of Planet Earth (2012), The Sciences of Avatar ( 2010), Death & Sex (2009), Notes from the Holocene: A Brief History of the Future (2009), Dazzle Gradually: Reflections on the Nature of Nature (2007), Water (2006), Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life (2005), Within the Stone: Nature's Abstract Rock Art (2004), Acquiring Genomes: A Theory of the Origins of Species (2002), Up From Dragons: The Evolution of Human Intelligence (2002), Cooking with Jesus : From the Primal Brew to the Last Brunch (2001), What is Life? (2000), Slanted Truths: Essays on Gaia, Evolution and Symbiosis (1997), What is Sex? (1997), Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution (1997), Garden of Microbial Delights: A Practical Guide to the Subvisible World (1988), Mystery Dance: On the Evolution of Human Sexuality (1986), Origins of Sex: Three Billion Years of Genetic Recombination (1990), Biospheres: Metamorphosis of Planet Earth (1990).