Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World by Nick Lane

Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World

Nick Lane

384 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction science challenging informative slow-paced

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Oxygen has had extraordinary effects on life. Three hundred million years ago, in Carboniferous times, dragonflies grew as big as seagulls, with wingspans ofnearly a metre. Researchers claim they could have flown only if the air had contained more...

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