Power, Sex, Suicide by Nick Lane
Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
A vivid synthesis of cellular bioenergetics and evolutionary biology arguing that mitochondria—through their role in energy production and possession of their own genomes—were the driving force behind the rise of complex cells, the origin of sex, and the inevitability of aging and death; the book traces how an ancient endosymbiotic event allowed a dramatic expansion of genome size and cellular complexity, explains why sex evolved as a mechanism to manage mitochondrial and nuclear genome conflicts, and shows how mitochondrial mutation, inheritance patterns, and energy constraints underpin phenomena from multicellularity and cancer to programmed cell death and senescence.
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- 2005
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- British
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- 352 pages
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