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>>22919172
Excerpt from review; "Furthermore, he argues that symbiosis, which can be traced back to bacterial-archaean combinatorics, drives evolution. In fact, Earth's first 2 billion years were characterized by horizontal gene transfer, showing how Darwinism must be supplemented with Lamarckism. Natural selection is merely an editor, not a creator of novelty. As a process of ceaseless creativity, life carries all organisms in its flow, and symbiosis facilitates this ceaseless creativity."

It is worth reading, but it is too dense and paradigm-shifting to post all here. It basically applies Whitehead's process philosophy in an ecological context.

"If organisms are mirrors of the universe, the biosphere is the composite mirror at the heart of which is symbiosis, as the way of projecting the authentic (more than human) reflection of the universe -- just as Archimboldo's Flora... represents the equality of the parts in the diversity of the whole."
- Predrag B. Slijepčević