What's gotten into you : the story of your body's atoms, from the Big Bang through last night's dinner /

Every one of us contains a billion times more atoms than there are gains of sand in the Earth's deserts. How did these elements combine to make us human? Levitt shares the awe-inspiring story of the elements that make up the human body, and how these building blocks of life traveled billions of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Levitt, Daniel (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023].
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • The journey begins: from a big bang to a rocky home. Happy birthday to everyone: the priest who discovered the beginning of time ; "That's funny": what the eye can never see ; The best man at Harvard: the woman who changed how we see the stars ; Catastrophes to be thankful for: how to make a world from gravity and dust
  • Let there be life!. Dirty snowballs and space rocks: the biggest flood of all time ; The most famous experiment: the search for the origin of the molecules of life ; The greatest mystery: the puzzling origin of the first cells
  • From sunlight to dinner plate. Light assembly required: discovering photosynthesis ; Lucky breaks: from ocean scum to green planet ; Planting the seeds: how greenery and its allies made us possible
  • From atoms to you. So much depends on so little: what do you need to eat to survive? ; Hidden in plain sight: the discovery of your master blueprint ; Elements and all: what is really inside you?
  • Conclusion: what a long strange trip it's been.