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Index
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction Mitochondria: Clandestine Rulers of the World
Part 1 Hopeful Monster: The Origin of the Eukaryotic Cell
1. The Deepest Evolutionary Chasm
2. Quest for a Progenitor
3. The Hydrogen Hypothesis
Part 2 The Vital Force: Proton Power and the Origin of Life
4. The Meaning of Respiration
5. Proton Power
6. The Origin of Life
Part 3 Insider Deal: The Foundations of Complexity
7. Why Bacteria are Simple
8. Why Mitochondria Make Complexity Possible
Part 4 Power Laws: Size and the Ramp of Ascending Complexity
9. The Power Laws of Biology
10. The Warm-Blooded Revolution
Part 5 Murder or Suicide: The Troubled Birth of the Individual
11. Conflict in the Body
12. Foundations of the Individual
Part 6 Battle of the Sexes: Human Pre-History and the Nature of Gender
13. The Asymmetry of Sex
14. What Human Pre-history Says About the Sexes
15. Why There Are Two Sexes
Part 7 Clock of Life: Why Mitochondria Kill us in the End
16. The Mitochondrial Theory of Ageing
17. Demise of the Self-Correcting Machine
18. A Cure for Old Age?
Epilogue
Glossary
Further Reading
Index
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