Full name: Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World

Author: Nick Lane Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, History Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads Barns&Noble eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780198607830 0198607830

In Oxygen, Nick Lane takes the reader on an enthralling journey as he unravels the unexpected ways in which oxygen spurred the evolution of life and death. He shows how oxygen underpins the origin of biological complexity, the birth of photosynthesis, the sudden evolution of animals, the need for two sexes, the accelerated aging of cloned animals like Dolly the sheep, and the surprisingly long lives of bats and birds. Drawing on this grand evolutionary canvas, Oxygen offers fresh perspectives on our own lives and deaths, explaining modern killer diseases, why we age, and what we can do about it. Advancing revelatory new ideas, following chains of evidence, the book ranges through many disciplines, from environmental sciences to molecular medicine. The result is a captivating vision of contemporary science and a humane synthesis of our place in nature. This remarkable book will redefine the way we think about the world. Similar books: Evolution by James A. Shapiro On Natural Selection by Charles Darwin Life Ascending by Nick Lane The Vital Question by Nick Lane The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin The Fifth Miracle by Paul Davies The Evolution of Beauty by Richard O. Prum A Planet of Viruses by Carl Zimmer Why Evolution Is True by Jerry A. Coyne The Richness of Life by Stephen Jay Gould Undeniable by Bill Nye River Out of Eden by Richard Dawkins The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being by Alice Roberts Promiscuity by Tim Birkhead The Making of the Fittest by Sean B. Carroll Evolution by Brian Charlesworth The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins Genome by Matt Ridley Big Bang by Simon Singh Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin