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_beng
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082 0 0 _a572 LAN
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100 1 _aLane, Nick,
_d1967-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aOxygen :
_bthe molecule that made the world /
_cNick Lane.
250 _aRevised impression.
264 1 _aOxford ;
_bOxford University Press,
_c2016.
264 4 _c©2002
300 _ax, 374 pages ;
_c20 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aOxford Landmark Science series.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: Elixir of Life and death -- In the beginning: the origins and importance of Oxygen -- Silence of the Aeons: three billion years of microbial evolution -- Fuse to the Cambrian explosion: snowball Earth, environmental change and the first animals -- Bolsover dragonfly: oxygen and the rise of the giants -- Treachery in the air: oxygen poisoning and x-irradiation: a mechanism in common -- Green Planet: radiation and the evolution of photosynthesis -- Looking for LUCA: last ancestor in an age before oxygen -- Portrait of a paradox: vitamin C. and the many faces of an antioxidant -- Antioxidant machine: a hundred and one ways of living with oxygen -- Sex and the art of bodily maintenance: trade-offs in the evolution of ageing -- Eat or you'll live forever: the triangle of food, sex and longevity -- Gender bender: the rate of living and the need for sexes -- Beyond genes and destiny: the double-agent theory of ageing and disease -- Life, death and oxygen: lessons from evolution on the future of ageing.
650 0 _aOxygen
_vPopular works.
650 0 _aOxygen
_xEvolution
_vPopular works.
650 0 _aOxygen in the body
_vPopular works.
650 0 _aBiogeochemical cycles
_vPopular works.
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