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Nature 452, 691-692 (10 April 2008) | doi:10.1038/452691a; Published online 9 April 2008

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Engines of life

Tim Lenton1

BOOK REVIEWEDEnergy in Nature and Society

by Vaclav Smil

MIT Press: 2008. 512 pp. $70, £45.95

The explosion of myriad life-forms throughout Earth's history has been fuelled by their ability to collect and process increasing amounts of energy. Thus organisms have become ever more complex, culminating in humans and our technology.

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