Oxygen : the molecule that made the world / Nick Lane.
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TextSeries: Oxford Landmark Science: Publisher: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2002Edition: Revised impressionDescription: x, 374 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780198784937; 0198784937Subject(s): Oxygen -- Popular works | Oxygen -- Evolution -- Popular works | Oxygen in the body -- Popular works | Biogeochemical cycles -- Popular works | Aging | Oxygen | Oxygen -- Physiological effect | OxygenGenre/Form: Popular Works.DDC classification: 572/.53 LOC classification: QP535.O1 | L36 2016| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- 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 -- Antioxidant machine: a hundred and one ways of living with oxygen -- Sex and the art of bodily maintenance: trade-offs in the evolution of ageing -- 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, death and oxygen: lessons from evolution on the future of ageing.
Explores the impact oxygen has had on earth - history of life, origin of two sexes, evolution of aging and death (why we age and what we can do about it).
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