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Life's Engines - How Microbes Made Earth Habitable (Paperback)
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Life's Engines - How Microbes Made Earth Habitable (Paperback)
Series: Science Essentials
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List price R520
Loot Price R437
Discovery Miles 4 370
You Save R83 (16%)
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For almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans
all to themselves. The stewards of Earth, these organisms
transformed the chemistry of our planet to make it habitable for
plants, animals, and us. Life's Engines takes readers deep into the
microscopic world to explore how these marvelous creatures made
life on Earth possible--and how human life today would cease to
exist without them. Paul Falkowski looks "under the hood" of
microbes to find the engines of life, the actual working parts that
do the biochemical heavy lifting for every living organism on
Earth. With insight and humor, he explains how these miniature
engines are built--and how they have been appropriated by and
assembled like Lego sets within every creature that walks, swims,
or flies. Falkowski shows how evolution works to maintain this core
machinery of life, and how we and other animals are veritable
conglomerations of microbes. A vibrantly entertaining book about
the microbes that support our very existence, Life's Engines will
inspire wonder about these elegantly complex nanomachines that have
driven life since its origin. It also issues a timely warning about
the dangers of tinkering with that machinery to make it more
"efficient" at meeting the ever-growing demands of humans in the
coming century.
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