© Columbia University Press
Hypersea: Life on Land
October, 1996
Paper, 343 pages, 98 illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-07531-2
$38.50
/ £22.50
Cloth, 343 pages, 98 illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-07530-5
$54.00
/ £32.00
"Why is life on land such a spectacular success? Because, say Dianna and Mark McMenamin, 450 million years ago life created Hypersea, a vast new ocean of interconnected tissues." — Discover
"This book is a significant advance in holistic biological thinking. It gives us a new view of the biosphere, in which symbiosis and cooperation are as important as predation and competition." — Whole Earth Review
"The whole is much greater than the sum of the parts. Symbiosis is not an amusing sideshow; it is the only show in town. Discovering this, we lose track of who is the host and who the parasite. All notions of biological hierarchy are turned upside down . . . Truth or engaging diversion, Hypersea is an illuminating way of looking at the biosphere." — New Scientist
"The Hypersea hypothesis offers a bold and comprehensive description of terrestrial life as an immense upwelling of minerals from hydrosphere and lithosphere. . . . The hypothesis will open the fields of physiology and evolution to grand questions, but perhaps even better, to the power of experimental and comparative inquiry." — Paul Mankiewicz, Director, Gaia Institute