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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: Princeton Science Library
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The marvelous microbes that made life on Earth possible and support
our very existence 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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