Life's Engines : : How Microbes Made Earth Habitable / / Paul G. Falkowski.
The marvelous microbes that made life on Earth possible and support our very existenceFor almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves. The stewards of Earth, these organisms transformed the chemistry of our planet to make it habitable for plants, animals, and us....
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Princeton Science Library Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- CHAPTER 1 The Missing Microbes -- CHAPTER 2 Meet the Microbes -- CHAPTER 3 The World before Time -- CHAPTER 4 Life’s Little Engines -- CHAPTER 5 Supercharging the Engines -- CHAPTER 6 Protecting the Core Genes -- CHAPTER 7 Cell Mates -- CHAPTER 8 Supersizing in Wonderland -- CHAPTER 9 The Fragile Species -- CHAPTER 10 The Tinkerers -- CHAPTER 11 Microbes on Mars and Butterflies on Venus? -- Further Readings -- Index |
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