Oxygen is the engine of life and evolution. This book explores the impact that oxygen has had on Earth, and the history of life. Explaining the rise of animals and plants, the origin of two sexes, and the evolution of ageing and death, it offers fresh perspectives on our own lives, explaining why we age and what we can do about it.
Oxygen is the engine of life and evolution. This book explores the impact that oxygen has had on Earth, and the history of life. Explaining the rise of animals and plants, the origin of two sexes, and the evolution of ageing and death, it offers fresh perspectives on our own lives, explaining why we age and what we can do about it.
Dr Nick Lane is a British biochemist and writer. He was awarded the first Provost's Venture Research Prize in the Department of Genetics, Evolution, and Environment at University College London, where he is now a Reader in Evolutionary Biochemistry. Dr Lane's research deals with evolutionary biochemistry and bioenergetics, focusing on the origin of life and the evolution of complex cells. Dr Lane was a founding member of the UCL Consortium for Mitochondrial Research, and is leading the UCL Research Frontiers Origins of Life programme. He was awarded the 2011 BMC Research Award for Genetics, Genomics, Bioinformatics and Evolution, and the 2015 Biochemical Society Award for his sustained and diverse contribution to the molecular life sciences and the public understanding of science. His books include Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World (OUP, 2002), and Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life (OUP, 2005).
Inhaltsangabe
* 1: Introduction: Elixir of Life - and Death * 2: In the Beginning: The Origins and Importance of Oxygen * 3: Silence of the Aeons: Three Billion Years of Microbial Evolution * 4: Fuse to the Cambrian Explosion: Snowball Earth, Environmental Change and the First Animals * 5: The Bolsover Dragonfly: Oxygen and the Rise of the Giants * 6: Treachery in the Air: Oxygen Poisoning and X-Irradiation: A Mechanism in Common * 7: Green Planet: Radiation and the Beginnings of Photosynthesis * 8: Looking for LUCA: Last Ancestor in the Age Before Oxygen * 9: Portrait of a Paradox: Vitamin C and the Many Faces of an Antioxidant * 10: The Antioxidant Machine: A Hundred and One Ways of Living with Oxygen * 11: Sex and the Art of Bodily Maintenance: Trade-offs in the Evolution of Ageing * 12: Eat! Or You'll Live Forever: The Triangle of Food, Sex, and Longevity * 13: Gender Bender: The Rate of Living and the Need for Sexes * 14: Beyond Genes and Destiny: The Double Agent Theory of Ageing and Disease * 15: Life, Death and Oxygen: Lessons From Evolution on the Future of Ageing * Further Reading * Glossary * Index
* 1: Introduction: Elixir of Life - and Death * 2: In the Beginning: The Origins and Importance of Oxygen * 3: Silence of the Aeons: Three Billion Years of Microbial Evolution * 4: Fuse to the Cambrian Explosion: Snowball Earth, Environmental Change and the First Animals * 5: The Bolsover Dragonfly: Oxygen and the Rise of the Giants * 6: Treachery in the Air: Oxygen Poisoning and X-Irradiation: A Mechanism in Common * 7: Green Planet: Radiation and the Beginnings of Photosynthesis * 8: Looking for LUCA: Last Ancestor in the Age Before Oxygen * 9: Portrait of a Paradox: Vitamin C and the Many Faces of an Antioxidant * 10: The Antioxidant Machine: A Hundred and One Ways of Living with Oxygen * 11: Sex and the Art of Bodily Maintenance: Trade-offs in the Evolution of Ageing * 12: Eat! Or You'll Live Forever: The Triangle of Food, Sex, and Longevity * 13: Gender Bender: The Rate of Living and the Need for Sexes * 14: Beyond Genes and Destiny: The Double Agent Theory of Ageing and Disease * 15: Life, Death and Oxygen: Lessons From Evolution on the Future of Ageing * Further Reading * Glossary * Index
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