Editing Lynn Margulis (section)

==Reception==
Historian [[Jan Sapp]] has said that "Lynn Margulis's name is as synonymous with symbiosis as [[Charles Darwin]]'s is with evolution."<ref name="Chelsea Green" /> She has been called "science's unruly earth mother",<ref name=mann>{{cite journal |last1=Mann |first1=C |title=Lynn Margulis: Science's unruly Earth mother |journal=Science |year=1991 |volume=252 |issue=5004 |pages=378–381 |doi=10.1126/science.252.5004.378 |bibcode=1991Sci...252..378M |pmid=17740930}}</ref> a "vindicated heretic",<ref>{{cite book |last1=Barlow |first1=Connie |title=From Gaia to Selfish Genes: Selected writings in the life sciences |year=1992 |publisher=MIT Press |location=Cambridge, MA |isbn=978-0-262-52178-9 |page=47 |edition=1st MIT Press paperback |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uQzPpx__0NYC}}</ref> or a scientific "rebel",<ref>{{cite news |last1=Fiveash |first1=Kelly |title='Rebel' biologist and neo-Darwinian skeptic Lynn Margulis dies |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/24/lynn_margulis_evolutionary_biologist_obit/ |access-date=19 December 2014 |newspaper=[[The Register]] |date=24 November 2011}}</ref> It has been suggested that initial rejection of Margulis' work on the endosymbiotic theory, and the controversial nature of it as well as Gaia theory, made her identify throughout her career with scientific mavericks, outsiders, and unaccepted theories generally.<ref name="Chelsea Green"/>

In the last decade of her life, while key components of her life's work began to be understood as fundamental to a modern scientific viewpoint – the widespread adoption of Earth System Science and the incorporation of key parts of endosymbiotic theory into biology curricula worldwide – Margulis if anything became more embroiled in controversy, not less. Journalist John Wilson explained this by saying that Lynn Margulis "defined herself by oppositional science,"<ref>{{cite episode|last1=Wilson|first1=John|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0184w5r|title=Christopher Hitchens, Lynn Margulis, George Whitman and Jerry Robinson|series=The Last Word with John Wilson|access-date=July 25, 2015|network=BBC Radio 4|date=December 16, 2011}}</ref> and in the commemorative collection of essays ''Lynn Margulis: The Life and Legacy of a Scientific Rebel'', commentators again and again depict her as a modern embodiment of the "scientific rebel",<ref name="Chelsea Green"/> akin to [[Freeman Dyson]]'s 1995 essay ''The Scientist as Rebel'', a tradition Dyson saw embodied in [[Benjamin Franklin]], and which Dyson believed to be essential to good science.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Dyson|first1=Freeman|title=The Scientist as Rebel|date=2006|publisher=New York Review of Books|location=New York|isbn=978-1-59017-216-2}}</ref>