Dorion Sagan (b. 1959 in Madison, Wisconsin) is an American science writer, essayist, and theorist. He has written and co-authored many books on culture, evolution, and the history and philosophy of science, most recently "The Sciences of Avatar: from Anthropology to Xenology" and "Death and Sex," which won first place at the 2010 New York Book Show in the general trade nonfiction category. His Into the Cool, co-authored with Eric D.Schneider, is about the relationship between non-equilibrium thermodynamics and life.

Sagan is the son of astronomer Carl Sagan and biologist Lynn Margulis. His younger brother is Jeremy Sagan and his half-brother is Nick Sagan.

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Biospheres: Metamorphosis of Planet Earth (1990)
Cooking with Jesus: From the Primal Brew to the Last Brunch (2001)
Notes from the Holocene: A Brief History of the Future (2007)
Death and Sex (second part of two-in-one book with Tyler Volk, 2009)
The Sciences of Avatar: From Anthropology to Xenology (2010)

Co-written with Lynn Margulis

Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Evolution from Our Microbial Ancestors (1986)
Origins of Sex : Three Billion Years of Genetic Recombination (1986)
Garden of Microbial Delights: A Practical Guide to the Subvisible World (1988)
Biospheres from Earth to Space (1989)
Mystery Dance: On the Evolution of Human Sexuality (1991)
What Is Sex? (1995)
What Is Life? (1995)
Slanted Truths: Essays on Gaia, Symbiosis, and Evolution (1997)
Acquiring Genomes: A Theory of the Origins of Species (2002)
Dazzle Gradually: Reflections on the Nature of Nature (2007)

Co-written with Eric D. Schneider

Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life (2005)

Co-written with others

The Evolution of Human Intelligence (2002 - with John Skoyles)
Within the Stone: Nature's Abstract Rock Art (2004 - partial text to book of photographs by Bill Atkinson)
Heretics (2003 - foreword to book by W. Sumner Davis)
Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism (2006 - foreword to book by David Mills)

Essays

"Metametazoa: Biology and Multiplicity" (1992 - In Incorporations: Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Jonathan Crary and Sanford Kwinter, editors, Zone, pp. 362-385)
"Partial closure: Dorion Sagan reflects on Carl" (1997 - Whole Earth, summer, pp. 34-37)
"Gender Specifics: Why Women Aren't Men" (1998 - The New York Times [1])
"The Beast with Five Genomes" (2001 - with Lynn Margulis - Natural History June, pp. 38-41) [2]
"The Postman Already Always Rings Twice: Fragments for an Understanding of the Future" (2004 "Cabinet: A Quarterly of Art and Culture", pp. 23-27)
"Gradient-Reduction Theory: Thermodynamics and the Purpose of Life" (2004 - with Jessica H. Whiteside. In Scientists Debate Gaia: The Next Century MIT Press)
"A Brief History of Sex" (2007 - Cosmos [Australia], June/July, pp. 50-55)
"Evolution, Complexity, and Energy Flow" (2008 - Back to Darwin: A Richer Account of Evolution [John B. Cobb Jr., Editor], William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, pp. 145-156)
"What is the Cultural Relevance of Bacteria?" (2009 - Sputnik Observatory) [3]

Short Stories

"The New Age Witch" (1993) - After Hours, #19, summer, pp. 36-45
"Love’s Strangers" (2006) Meat for Tea: The Northampton Review, summer, Vol. 1, Issue 3, "Flesh," pp. 3-10
"Semi-Naked" (2006) Meat for Tea: The Northampton Review, winter, Vol. 1, Issue 1, "Gristle," pp. 5-24

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