Nick LaneOxygen
The Molecule That Made the World
Sprecher: Patterson, Nigel
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 Professor of Evolutionary Biochemistry. Professor Lane's research deals with evolutionary biochemistry and bioenergetics, focusing on the origin of life and the evolution of complex cells. He was a founding member of the UCL Consortium for Mitochondrial Research, and is leading the UCL Research Frontiers Origins of Life program. 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.
* 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
