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Nick Lane
Oxygen: The Molecule that Changed the World
Hay Festival 2004,
Oxygen is the engine of life and evolution. Lane explores the impact that oxygen has had on Earth, tracing the history of life from the very beginning. He explains the rise of animals and plants, the origin of two sexes, and the evolution of ageing and death.