Life's Engines: How Microbes Made Earth Habitable (Science Essentials): 24

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On the plus side, hearing about the McKay fossils was interesting, considering they have a small chance of signifying life on Mars.One microbe may excrete a sugar that is used by another that excretes an amino acid that is used by another and on and on.

I believe I have a basic understanding of biology but at times the content was a little difficult to grasp. It was rewarding and made me understand our world better and direct my thoughts beyond us humans and our planet. Paul Falkowski looks “under the hood” of microbes to find the engines of life, the actual working parts that do the biochemical heavy lifting for every living organism on Earth.In fact, the site has transport links to the whole of the UK on its doorstep with Culham Train Station a short walk away. Although World Championship races held in 1952 and 1953 were run to Formula Two regulations, constructors who only participated during this period are included herein to maintain Championship continuity. From the inner workings of the cell to the broad sweep of Earth history, Falkowski weaves a tale of discovery that has profound consequences for understanding our past, our future, and, not least, our own bodies.

Some of the microbes aid in the sponge's nutrition, while others produce toxic chemicals that keep predators away. In fact, the composition of a planet's atmosphere is a key indicator of the status of life on the planet. They require effort (at least they did for me) as well as interest in and and some familiarity with the topic. But microbes are very diverse and adaptable and likely will survive and rebalance the planet with or without us.With insight and humor, he explains how these miniature engines are built-and how they have been appropriated by and assembled like Lego sets within every creature that walks, swims, or flies. Like how last chapter he said he accidentally discovered the death phase first, when observing without explaining or describing has never been the criterion for discovery. I also thought it was pretty interesting to read that the Sun has gotten brighter over the millennia, again something that wouldn’t have even entered my ideas.

This is a good read, but there are very few living cells and not a hint of the majestic complexity of the microbial world. And there was so much more which I had missed entirely: intercellular ion transfer to produce energy, the different chemical reactions involved in photosynthesis, even the Great Oxidation Event, or how the individual bases, or nucleotides, in DNA encode for the different amino acids in proteins. The evolution of opsins, which was a treasure buried in a few paragraphs, should have come with a drumroll. It feels like Falkowski kind of lost steam nearing the end of the book and dropped any pretense of making it about microbes and just started throwing in history of fields he was involved in.The audiobook reflects Rhonda’s own journey and shares the most direct way out for those experiencing hardship and the path to end pain and suffering endured by so many, and it shines a light on a future without anxiety or fear. The author is uniquely qualified, perhaps singularly so, to cover topics ranging over broad time and space scales with a scholarly, transdisciplinary perspective that ranges from fundamental physics and chemistry, to Earth and ocean sciences. He explains how features of single celled life were used in the transition to multicellular organisms.