Lynn Alexander Death
Lynn passed away on November 22, 2011 at the age of 73 in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. Lynn's cause of death was stroke.
When did Lynn Alexander die?
November 22, 2011How did Lynn Alexander die? What was the cause of death?
StrokeHow old was Lynn Alexander when died?
73Where did Lynn Alexander die? What was the location of death?
Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Lynn Alexander Birthday and Date of Death
Lynn Alexander was born on March 5, 1938 and died on November 22, 2011. Lynn was 73 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: March 5, 1938
Date of Death: November 22, 2011
Age at Death: 73
Lynn Alexander - Biography
Lynn Margulis (born Lynn Petra Alexander; March 5, 1938 – November 22, 2011) was an American evolutionary theorist, taxonomist, bacteriologist, protistologist, and botanist, with advanced degrees in zoology and genetics. She was known to the public as a science author, educator, and popularizer, and recognized as the primary modern proponent for the significance of symbiosis in biological evolution. Historian Jan Sapp has noted that, "Lynn Margulis’s name is as synonymous with symbiosis as Charles Darwin’s is with evolution." In particular, Margulis transformed and fundamentally framed current understanding of the evolution of cells with nuclei – an event Ernst Mayr called "perhaps the most important and dramatic event in the history of life" – by proposing it to have been the result of symbiotic mergers of bacteria. Margulis was also the co-developer of Gaia theory with the British chemist James Lovelock, proposing that the Earth functions as a single self-regulating system, and was the principal defender and promulgater of the five kingdom classification of Robert Whittaker.
