Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World
by Nick Lane
How oxygen shaped evolution, aging and the planet: free radicals, antioxidants, the Cambrian. Lane's first book.
Read it if…
you want chemistry at the scale of Earth's history.
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Skip it if…
you want current health advice on antioxidants; it will complicate it.
Try instead: Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death →
Three things you will actually use
- Oxygen is a double-edged gift.
- Antioxidants are not simple.
- Chemistry drives history.
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Read the chapters on free radicals and aging.
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Lane on oxygen.
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