TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lane,Nick
TI  - Oxygen: the molecule that made the world 
T2  - Oxford Landmark Science series
SN  - 9780198784937
AV  - QP535.O1 L36 2016
U1  - 572/.53 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Oxygen
KW  - Popular works
KW  - Evolution
KW  - Oxygen in the body
KW  - Biogeochemical cycles
KW  - Aging
KW  - fast
KW  - Physiological effect
KW  - Popular Works
N1  - 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
N2  - 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)
ER  -