Ben Mcfarland

World from Dust

How the Periodic Table Shaped Life

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In A World From Dust, Ben McFarland brings together the latest genetic, chemical, mathematic, and geological evidence to tell the story of how life has evolved on this planet over billions of years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 165mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780190275013
• ISBN-10: 0190275014
• Artikelnr.: 45637182

Autorenporträt

Ben McFarland teaches biochemistry and chemistry at Seattle Pacific University in Seattle WA. He received a dual B.S. in Chemistry and Technical Writing from the University of Florida and a Ph.D. in Biomolecular Structure and Design from the University of Washington. His research uses the rules of chemistry to redesign immune system proteins.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Arsenic Life?
Chapter 2: A Tapestry from Three Threads
Chapter 3: Unfolding the Periodic Table
Chapter 4: The Triple-Point Planet
Chapter 5: Seven Clues for Quickening the Rocks
Chapter 6: Wheels Within Wheels
Chapter 7: The Colorful Path to Oxygen
Chapter 8: One Step Back, Two Steps Forward
Chapter 9: Cracked Open and Knit Together by Oxygen
Chapter 10: The End of (Chemical) Evolution
Chapter 11: How Chemistry Shaped History, Through Words
Chapter 12: Cosmos and Chaos