Oxygen

Oxygen

The Molecule That Made the World
by Nick Lane
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About This Book

Oxygen (2002) is a guide to the element that is so essential to our very existence that we sometimes forget it even exists. These blinks explain how oxygen enables and boosts life on earth while simultaneously threatening it.

Who Should Read This?

  • Anybody fascinated by the evolution of life on Earth
  • Anyone interested in biology, chemistry or physics

About the Author

Dr. Nick Lane studied biochemistry at Imperial College London and is an Honorary Reader at University College London. He is the author of Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life and Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution.