Kids Library Home

Welcome to the Kids' Library!

Search for books, movies, music, magazines, and more.

     
Available items only
Record 9 of 11
Previous Record Next Record
E-Book/E-Doc
Author Lane, Nick.

Title Power, sex, suicide [electronic resource] : mitochondria and the meaning of life / Nick Lane.

Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Edition Second edition.
Description xxviii, 523 p. : ill.
Series Oxford landmark science series
Oxford landmark science.
Bibliography 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?
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Mitochondria.
Mitochondrial DNA.
Energy metabolism.
Eukaryotic cells -- Evolution.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780198831907
9780192567840

 
    
Available items only