Power, sex, suicide mitochondria and the meaning of life /

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Autore principale: Lane, Nick
Ente Autore: ebrary, Inc
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
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Sommario:
  • 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?