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Oxygen : the molecule that made the world / Nick Lane.

Lane, Nick. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 0198508034 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780198508038 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0198607830 )pbk)
  • ISBN: 9780198607830 )pbk)
  • Physical Description: x, 374 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2002.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-359) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: Elixir of Life --- and Death -- In the beginning: The origins and importance of oxygen -- Silence of the aeons: Three billion years of microbial evolution -- Fuse to the Cambrian Explosion: Snowball earth, environmental change and the first animals -- The Bolsover Dragonfly: Oxygen and the rise of the giants -- Treachery in the air: oxygen poisoning and x-irradiation: A mechanism in common -- Green planet: Radiation and the evolution of photosynthesis -- Looking for LUCA: Last ancestor in an age before oxygen -- Portrait of a paradox: Vitamin C and the many faces of an antioxidant -- The antioxidant machine: a hundred and one ways of living with oxygen -- Sex and the art of bodily maintenance: Trade-offs in the evolution of aging -- Eat! or you'll live forever: The triangle of food, sex and longevity -- Gender bender: The rate of living and the need for sexes -- Beyond genes and destiny: The double-agent theory of ageing and disease -- Life, deth and oxygen: Lessons from evolution on the future of ageing.
Subject:
Oxygen > Popular works.
Oxygen > Evolution > Popular works.
Oxygen in the body > Popular works.
Biogeochemical cycles > Popular works.
Oxígeno > Obras de divulgación.
Oxígeno > Evolución > Obras de divulgación.
Oxígeno en el cuerpo > Obras de divulgación.
Ciclos biogeoquímicos > Obras de divulgación.
Zuurstof.
Evolutie.
Oxygène > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Oxygène > Évolution > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Oxygène dans l'organisme > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Cycles biogéochimiques > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Oxigênio (origem;evolução)

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