Power, sex, suicide [[electronic resource] ] : mitochondria and the meaning of life / / Nick Lane
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| Autore: |
Lane Nick
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| Titolo: |
Power, sex, suicide [[electronic resource] ] : mitochondria and the meaning of life / / Nick Lane
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2018 |
| Edizione: | Second edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 571.6/57 |
| Soggetto topico: | Mitochondria |
| Mitochondrial DNA | |
| Energy metabolism | |
| Eukaryotic cells - Evolution | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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? |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Power, sex, suicide |
| ISBN: | 0-19-256785-3 |
| 0-19-256784-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910793277003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
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Oxford landmark science.