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Table of contents :
1 Introduction: Elixir of Life — and Death 1……Page 13
2 In the Beginning: The Origins and Importance of Oxygen 16……Page 28
3 Silence of the Aeons: Three Billion Years of Microbial Evolution 29……Page 41
4 Fuse to the Cambrian Explosion: Snowball Earth, Environmental Change and the First Animals 54……Page 66
5 The Bolsover Dragonfly: Oxygen and the Rise of the Giants 76……Page 88
6 Treachery in the Air: Oxygen Poisoning and X-Irradiation: A Mechanism in Common 106……Page 118
7 Green Planet: Radiation and the Evolution of Photosynthesis 131……Page 143
8 Looking for LUCA: Last Ancestor in an Age Before Oxygen 147……Page 159
9 Portrait of a Paradox: Vitamin C and the Many Faces of an Antioxidant 171……Page 183
10 The Antioxidant Machine: A Hundred and One Ways of Living with Oxygen 194……Page 206
11 Sex and the Art of Bodily Maintenance: Trade-offs in the Evolution of Ageing 212……Page 224
12 Eat! Or You’ll Live Forever: The Triangle of Food, Sex and Longevity 235……Page 247
13 Gender Bender: The Rate of Living and the Need for Sexes 252……Page 264
14 Beyond Genes and Destiny: The Double-Agent Theory of Ageing and Disease 283……Page 295
15 Life, Death and Oxygen: Lessons From Evolution on the Future of Ageing 314……Page 326
Further Reading 343……Page 355
Glossary 360……Page 372
Index 366……Page 378
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