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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.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Biology, life sciences Life sciences: general issues

• Full title: Life's Engines
• Subtitle: How Microbes Made Earth Habitable
• Author: Falkowski
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780691173351
• ISBN: 9780691173351
• ID: 10915923
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Weight: 334 g
• Dimensions: 156 × 234 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. December 2016

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