Oxygen —— The molecule that made the world

----- 氧气：制造世界的分子

ISBN: 9780198607830 出版年：2002 页码：385 Lane, Nick Oxford University Press

1. Introduction: Elixir of Life - and Death 2. In the Beginning there was no Oxygen: The Origins and Importance of Oxygen 3. Silence of the Aeons: Three Billion Years of Microbial Evolution 4. Fuse to the Cambrian Explosion: Snowball Earth, Environmental Change and the First Animals 5. The Bolsover Dragonfly: Oxygen and the Rise of the Giants 6. Treachery in the Air: Oxygen Poisoning and X-Irradiation: A Mechanism in Common 7. Green Planet: Radiation and the Beginnings of Photosynthesis 8. Looking for LUCA: Last Ancestor in the Age Before Oxygen 9. Portrait of a Paradox: Vitamin C and the Many Faces of an Antioxidant 10. The Antioxidant Machine: A Hundred and One Ways of Living with Oxygen 11. Sex and the Art of Bodily Maintenance: Trade-offs in the Evolution of Ageing 12. Eat! Or You'll Live Forever: The Triangle of Food, Sex, and Longevity 13. Gender Bender! The Rate of Living and the Need for Sexes 14. Beyond Genes and Destiny: The Double Agent Theory of Ageing and Disease 15. Life, Death and Oxygen: Lessons From Evolution on the Future of Ageing