Power, sex, suicide mitochondria and the meaning of life

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 t...

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1. Verfasser:	Lane, Nick (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:	eng
Veröffentlicht:	Oxford, New York Oxford University Press 2006
Ausgabe:	Oxford University Press pbk. ed
Schlagworte:	Mitochondria > Mitochondrial DNA > Energy metabolism > Eukaryotic cells > Evolution
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Zusammenfassung:	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?
Beschreibung:	XIII, 354 S Ill., graph. Darst. 20 cm
ISBN:	9780199205646 978-0-19-920564-6 0199205647 0-19-920564-7