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Power Sex Suicide by Lane Nick
$28.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas | Series: Oxford Landmark Science Ser.
Mitochondria are tiny structures located inside our cells that carry out the essential task of producing energy for the cell. They are found in all complex living things, and in that sense, they are fundamental for driving complex life on the planet. But there is much more to them than that. Mitochondri ...Show more
The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it is? by Nick Lane
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Category: Science
Why is life the way it is? Bacteria evolved into complex life just once in four billion years of life on earth-and all complex life shares many strange properties, from sex to ageing and death. If life evolved on other planets, would it be the same or completely different? In The Vital Question, Nick La ...Show more
Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death by Nick Lane
$50.00 AUD
Category: Science
For decades, biology has been dominated by information - the power of genes. Yet there is no difference in information content between a living cell and one that died a moment ago. A better question goes back to the formative years of biology: what processes animate cells and set them apart from lifeles ...Show more
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