Full title: Power, sex, suicide : mitochondria and the meaning of life / Nick Lane.

Author/creator: Lane, Nick, 1972-.

Date: 2005..

Call Numbers: N571.657/1

Record Identifier: 74VKm3zXDWKZ

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: p. cm., Introduction : mitochondria : clandestine rulers of the world -- Pt. 1. Hopeful monster : the origin of the eukaryotic cell -- 1. The deepest evolutionary chasm -- 2. Quest for a progenitor -- 3. The hydrogen hypothesis -- Pt. 2. The vital force : proton power and the origin of life -- 4. The meaning of respiration -- 5. Proton power -- 6. The origin of life -- Pt. 3. Insider deal : the foundations of complexity -- 7. Why bacteria are simple -- 8. Why mitochondria make complexity possible -- Pt. 4. Power laws : size and the ramp of ascending complexity -- 9. The power laws of biology -- 10. The warm-blooded revolution -- Pt. 5. Murder or suicide : the troubled birth of the individual -- 11. Conflict in the body -- 12. Foundations of the individual -- Pt. 6. Battle of the sexes : human pre-history and the nature of gender -- 13. The asymmetry of sex -- 14. What human pre-history says about the sexes -- 15. Why there are two sexes., Pt. 7. Clock of life : why mitochondria kill us in the end -- 16. The mitochondrial theory of ageing -- 17. Demise of the self-correcting machine -- 18. A cure for old age?

Publishers: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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DDC: 571.657

MMS ID: 991020575139702626