9780199603022-0199603022-Nature's Chemicals: The Natural Products that Shaped Our World

Nature's Chemicals: The Natural Products that Shaped Our World

ISBN-13: 9780199603022
ISBN-10: 0199603022
Edition: 1
Author: Richard Firn
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 264 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780199603022
ISBN-10: 0199603022
Edition: 1
Author: Richard Firn
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 264 pages

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Nature's Chemicals: The Natural Products that Shaped Our World (ISBN-13: 9780199603022 and ISBN-10: 0199603022), written by authors Richard Firn, was published by Oxford University Press in 2011. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other Biochemistry (Chemistry, Organic, Biological Sciences) books. You can easily purchase or rent Nature's Chemicals: The Natural Products that Shaped Our World (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Biochemistry books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.34.

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Natural Products (NPs) is the term used to describe the hundreds of thousands of chemical compounds or substances that are continually produced by living organisms (plants and microbes). Hundreds of millions of tons of these chemicals are generated annually, and the trade in just a few of these has dominated human economic activity for thousands of years. Indeed the current world geopolitical map has been shaped by attempts to control the supply of a few of these compounds. Every day of our lives each human spends time and money trying to procure the NPs of their choice. However, despite their overwhelming influence on human culture, they remain poorly understood. Yet a knowledge of NPs can help in our search for new drugs, further the debate about GM manipulation, help us address environmental pollution, and enable a better understanding of drug trafficking. Nature's Chemicals is the first book to describe Natural Products (NPs) in an evolutionary context, distilling the few simple principles that govern the way in which organisms (including humans) have evolved to produce, cope with, or respond to NPs. It neatly synthesizes a widely dispersed literature and provides a general picture of NPs, encompassing evolution, history, ecology, and environmental issues (along with some deeper theory relevant to biochemistry), with the goal of enabling a wider section of the scientific community to fully appreciate the crucial importance of Natural Products to human culture and future survival.

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