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Oxygen : the molecule that made the world /
Oxygen has had extraordinary effects on life. Three hundred million years ago, in Carboniferous times, dragonflies grew as big as seagulls, with wingspans ofnearly a metre. Researchers claim they could have flown only if the air had contained more oxygen than today -probably as much as 35 per cent....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: 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
- The 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
- The 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
- Glossary.