Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life [Nick Lane]
Yeah. So I did end up cheating a skipping the middle part of this book. I'm glad I did, since the parts I wanted to read weren't as good as I was hoping. The part about sex and gender was my favorite part, which should surprise no one that knows me.
One thing I found interesting in the first parts of the book was the hypothesis that the original mitochondria was parasitic and was using the host cell. The idea really shocked me at first, but the hydrogen hypothesis makes sense.