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Index
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1 Introduction: Elixir of Life — and Death
2 In the Beginning: The Origins and Importance of Oxygen
3 Silence of the Aeons: Three Billion Years of Microbial Evolution
4 Fuse to the Cambrian Explosion: Snowball Earth, Environmental Change and the First Animals
5 The Bolsover Dragonfly: Oxygen and the Rise of the Giants
6 Treachery in the Air: Oxygen Poisoning and X-Irradiation: A Mechanism in Common
7 Green Planet: Radiation and the Evolution of Photosynthesis
8 Looking for LUCA: Last Ancestor in an Age Before Oxygen
9 Portrait of a Paradox: Vitamin C and the Many Faces of an Antioxidant
10 The Antioxidant Machine: A Hundred and One Ways of Living with Oxygen
11 Sex and the Art of Bodily Maintenance: Trade-offs in the Evolution of Ageing
12 Eat! Or You’ll Live Forever: The Triangle of Food, Sex and Longevity
13 Gender Bender: The Rate of Living and the Need for Sexes
14 Beyond Genes and Destiny: The Double-Agent Theory of Ageing and Disease
15 Life, Death and Oxygen: Lessons From Evolution on the Future of Ageing
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