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Oxygen : the molecule that made the world / Nick Lane.
| Author/creator | Lane, Nick, 1967- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2002. |
| Description | x, 374 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Supplemental Content | Contributor biographical information |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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. |
| Local note | Little-347880--305131054222S |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-359) and index. |
| LCCN | 2002727103 |
| ISBN | 0198508034 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780198508038 (hbk. : alk. paper) |