Evolution in a Toxic World: How Life Responds to Chemical Threats

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. An Introduction

PART 1: ELEMENT

Chapter 2. Shining a Light on Earth’s Oldest Toxic Threat?

Chapter 3. When Life Gives You Oxygen, Respire

Chapter 4. Metal Planet

PART 2: PLANT AND ANIMAL

Chapter 5. It Takes Two (or More) for the Cancer Tango

Chapter 6. ChemicalWarfare

Chapter 7. Sensing Chemicals

Chapter 8. Coordinated Defense

PART 3: HUMAN

Chapter 9. Toxic Evolution

Chapter 10. Toxic Overload?

Appendix: Five Recent Additions to the Chemical Handbook of Life

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index