Life's Engines : : How Microbes Made Earth Habitable / / Paul G. Falkowski.
For 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. Life's Engines takes readers deep into the microscopic world to explore how these...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Science Essentials ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 16 halftones. 22 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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