Microcosmos tiene la facultad de hacernos pensar, a partir de la experiencia y del conocimiento cient\u00edficos, acerca de los eternos interrogantes existenciales del ser humano: qu\u00e9 hacemos aqu\u00ed, de d\u00f3nde venimos y, ante todo, hacia d\u00f3nde vamos. Son cient\u00edficos como Lynn Margulis los que cambian la visi\u00f3n preestablecida que tenemos del mundo que nos rodea y del que formamos parte.Hace miles de millones de a\u00f1os s\u00f3lo hab\u00eda microbios y hoy existe, por ejemplo, la civilizaci\u00f3n humana. Cabe preguntarse, pues, cu\u00e1l es la relaci\u00f3n entre la especie humana y el resto de las formas vivas. Lynn Margulis ha desarrollado una de las teor\u00edas m\u00e1s imaginativas (\u00a1y m\u00e1s bellas!) sobre c\u00f3mo aquellos habitantes del microcosmos se \u00abasociaron\u00bb para crear nuevas formas que, a su vez, lograron transformar el planeta en el que hab\u00eda de continuar la evoluci\u00f3n que llega hasta nosotros. Nada parece ser exclusivo de la especie humana: sus poderes no son \u00fanicos, su existencia no es la culminaci\u00f3n de nada.Los microbios cubren nada menos que las cinco sextas partes de la historia de la vida, viven en nosotros y nosotros en ellos, ellos nos han \u00abinventado\u00bb, al ser ellos los que establecieron las bases qu\u00edmicas y estructurales fundamentales en las que todav\u00eda se basa cualquier forma de vida. La idea central de Margulis y Sagan es, pues, la simbiosis; es decir seres simples especializados en diferentes funciones establecen sucesivas alianzas y pactos para crear superestructuras cada vez m\u00e1s generales y complejas. La idea de competencia y supervivencia del m\u00e1s apto desaparece, para ellos, frente a esta nueva idea, basada en la interacci\u00f3n continua, la cohabitaci\u00f3n y la mutua dependencia de las distintas especies. Aprenderemos as\u00ed, despu\u00e9s de la lectura de este libro, cu\u00e1l es el papel de la conciencia humana en esta prodigiosa saga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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