Table of contents for Iron, Nature's Universal Element: Why People Need Iron and Animals Make Magnets by Eugenie Vorburger Mielczarek and Sharon Bertsch McGrayne

List of Figures

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: A Legacy of Iron

What Was Iron Doing at Life's Birth?: Life Without Oxygen

Catastrophe: The Arrival of Oxygen

Grabbing and Storing: Controlling Iron

The Smallest Living Magnets: Avoiding Oxygen

Hemoglobin and Myoglobin: Harnessing Oxygen

Migrating Animals: Magnetic Travel

Iron and the Planet's Ecosystem: Seas and Soils

Feeding the World's Poor: Iron Deficiency

Glossary

Bibliography

Index