Power, sex, suicide : mitochondria and the meaning of life / / Nick Lane.
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| Superior document: | Oxford landmark science series |
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| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Edition: | Second edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oxford landmark science.
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| Physical Description: | xxviii, 523 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- The deepest evolutionary chasm
- Quest for a progenitor
- The hydrogen hypothesis
- The meaning of respiration
- Proton power
- The origin of life
- Why bacteria are simple
- Why mitochondria make complexity possible
- The power laws of biology
- The warm-blooded revolution
- Conflict in the body
- Foundations of the individual
- The asymmetry of sex
- What human prehistory says about the sexes
- Why there are two sexes
- The mitochondrial theory of ageing
- Demise of the self-correcting machine
- A cure for old age?