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Prologue
The jagged environment
The formation of the solar system
Formation of the Earth
The structure of the atmosphere
Ageing and programmed cell death
Super-volcanoes - the internal Death-Star
Science
Environmental and social time-bombs
Origins
Elemental origins
Progenesis - the simple to the complex
The stress of oxygen - antioxidants
Incorporation of organic building blocks into primitive cells
Hydrocarbon oxidation
Evolution of cell membranes
Membrane damage as the molecular basis of all disease
Advantage - the co-operative matrix
Animal instinct
Life on Mars and elsewhere in the Universe
"Eat dirt"
A role for "Science"?
Lifting the Lid
Geochemical activity and climate change
Internal clock
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Consequences
Human influence
The missing link
The influence of the extra-terrestrial
Radiation
Essentials
Implications
Apocalypse
Evolution of the individual
Can we save the planet?
Gaia
God
Predetermination - "Fate"
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