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Science 31 March 2006:
Vol. 311. no. 5769, p. 1869
DOI: 10.1126/science.1126251
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CELL BIOLOGY:
Energizing Eukaryotes

David G. Nicholls

Power, Sex, Suicide
Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
by Nick Lane
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005. 368 pp. $30, £18.99. ISBN 0-19-280481-2.
The author explores a range of big questions in biology--including eukaryote origins, human evolution, sex, fertility, and death--from the perspective of mitochondria.
The reviewer is at the Buck Institute for Age Research, 8001 Redwood Boulevard, Novato, CA 94945, USA. E-mail: dnicholls{at}buckinstitute.org

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