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Author:
Lane, Nick.
Title:
Power, sex, suicide : mitochondria and the meaning of life / Nick Lane.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
Copyright Date:
2005
Description:
xiii, 354 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Mitochondria
Mitochondrial DNA.
Energy metabolism.
Eukaryotic cells--Evolution.
Mitochondria
DNA, Mitochondrial.
Energy metabolism.
Eukaryotic Cells.
Evolution, Molecular.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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?
ISBN:
9780192804815
9780192804815 (alk. paper)
0192804812 (alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)61151377
LCCN:
2005019700
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)
UWAX953 -- Waldorf University - Luise V. Hanson Library (Forest City)
CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

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