Editing Lynn Margulis (section)

== Personal life ==
Margulis married astronomer [[Carl Sagan]] in 1957 soon after she got her bachelor's degree. Sagan was then a graduate student in physics at the University of Chicago. Their marriage ended in 1964, just before she completed her PhD. They had two sons, [[Dorion Sagan]], who later became a popular science writer and her collaborator, and Jeremy Sagan, software developer and founder of Sagan Technology.{{cn|date=August 2024}}

In 1967 she married Thomas N. Margulis, a [[crystallography|crystallographer]]. They had a son named Zachary Margulis-Ohnuma, a New York City criminal defense lawyer, and a daughter Jennifer Margulis, teacher and author.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lynn Margulis |url=http://www.nndb.com/people/228/000268421/ |website=[[NNDB.com]] |access-date=July 25, 2014}}</ref><ref name="Weil-2011">{{cite news |last1=Weil |first1=Martin |title=Lynn Margulis, leading evolutionary biologist, dies at 73 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/lynn-margulis-leading-evolutionary-biologist-dies-at-73/2011/11/26/gIQAQ5dezN_story.html |access-date=December 19, 2014 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=November 26, 2011}}</ref> They divorced in 1980.{{cn|date=August 2024}}

She commented, "I quit my job as a wife twice," and, "it's not humanly possible to be a good wife, a good mother, and a first-class scientist. No one can do it — something has to go."<ref name="Weil-2011"/>

In the 2000s she had a relationship with fellow biologist Ricardo Guerrero.<ref name="NNDB"/>

Margulis argued that the [[September 11 attacks]] were a "[[false-flag operation]], which has been used to justify the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as unprecedented assaults on [...] civil liberties." She wrote that there was "overwhelming evidence that the three buildings [of the World Trade Center] collapsed by controlled demolition."<ref name="Chelsea Green"/>

She was a religious [[Agnosticism|agnostic]],<ref name="NNDB"/> and a staunch [[evolutionist]], but rejected the [[modern synthesis (20th century)|modern evolutionary synthesis]],<ref name="Teresi-2011"/> and said: "I remember waking up one day with an epiphanous revelation: I am not a neo-Darwinist! I recalled an earlier experience, when I realized that I wasn't a humanistic Jew. Although I greatly admire Darwin's contributions and agree with most of his theoretical analysis and I am a Darwinist, I am not a neo-Darwinist."<ref name=BrockmanInterview/> She argued that "Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create", and maintained that symbiosis was the major driver of evolutionary change.<ref name="Teresi-2011"/>

Margulis died on November 22, 2011, at home in [[Amherst, Massachusetts|Amherst]], [[Massachusetts]], five days after suffering a [[hemorrhagic stroke]].<ref name =obit/><ref name="Weber-2011"/><ref name="Lake-2011"/><ref name="Weil-2011"/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Rose |first1=Steven |title=Lynn Margulis obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/dec/11/lynn-margulis-obtiuary |access-date=July 25, 2014 |newspaper=The Guardian |place=UK |date=December 11, 2011}}</ref> As her wish, she was cremated and her ashes were scattered in her favorite research areas, near her home.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Faulkner |first1=Sean |title=Condolences |url=http://www.geo.umass.edu/margulislab/Environmental_Evolution/Condolences.html |website=geo.umass.edu |access-date=December 20, 2014}}</ref>