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Power, Sex, Suicide : Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life

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Author(s): Lane, Nick
Series: Oxford landmark science
Edition: 2nd edition
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2018

Language: English
Commentary: Better version
Pages: 553
City: Oxford
Tags: Mitochondria;Mitochondrial DNA;Energy metabolism;Eukaryotic cells -- Evolution

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?