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Oxygen and the Evolution of Life
Decker, Heinz; Holde, Kensal E. Van
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Paperback. This book depicts the interconnected histories of life and oxygen. It depict how changes in the earth's atmosphere have been interrelated with the origin of life and delineate the important implications for human health and humanity's future. Num Pages: 183 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PSAJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 291.
This book describes the interlaced histories of life and oxygen. It opens with the generation of oxygen in ancient stars and its distribution to newly formed planets like the Earth. Free O2 was not available on the early Earth, so the first life forms had to be anaerobic. Life introduced free O2 into the environment through the evolution of photosynthesis, which must have been a disaster for many anaerobes. Others found ways to deal with the toxic reactive oxygen species and even developed a much more efficient oxygen-based metabolism. The authors vividly describe how the introduction of O2 allowed the ... Read more
This book describes the interlaced histories of life and oxygen. It opens with the generation of oxygen in ancient stars and its distribution to newly formed planets like the Earth. Free O2 was not available on the early Earth, so the first life forms had to be anaerobic. Life introduced free O2 into the environment through the evolution of photosynthesis, which must have been a disaster for many anaerobes. Others found ways to deal with the toxic reactive oxygen species and even developed a much more efficient oxygen-based metabolism. The authors vividly describe how the introduction of O2 allowed the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
183
Condition
New
Number of Pages
172
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783642423840
SKU
V9783642423840
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99-15
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