Life's engines : how microbes made Earth habitable /
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....
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2023.
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| Edition: | First Princeton science library paperback edition. |
| Series: | Princeton science library.
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Table of Contents:
- The missing microbes
- Meet the microbes
- The world before time
- Life's little engines
- Supercharging the engines
- Protecting the core genes
- Cell mates
- Supersizing wonderland
- The fragile species
- The tinkerers
- Microbes on Mars and butterflies on Venus?