Life's Edge : : the Search for What it Means to be Alive
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Introduction: The borderland -- The quickening. The way the spirit comes to the bones ; Death is resisted -- The hallmarks. Dinner ; Decisive matter ; Preserving constant the conditions of life ; Copy/Paste ; Darwin's lung -- A series of dark questions. This astonishing multiplication ; Irritations ; The sect ; This mud was actually alive ; A play of water ; Scripts -- Return to the borderland. Half life ; Data needed for a blueprint ; No obvious bushes ; Four blue droplets.
"We all assume we know what life is, but the more scientists learn about the living world-from protocells to brains, from zygotes to pandemic viruses-the harder they find it is to locate life's edge"-- Provided by publisher.
What is life? The power seems obvious until you try to seriously answer it. Zimmer journeys through experiments that have attempted to recreate life; shows how coronaviruses have altered the course of history; and even tries his own had at evolving life in a test tube... with unnerving results. -- adapted from jacket
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PUBLISHED
New York : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2021]
Year Published: 2021
Description: 348 pages ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780593182734 (softcover)
9780593182710
0593182715
SUBJECTS
Life sciences.
Life (Biology)