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Life's edge : the search for what it means to be alive / Carl Zimmer.
"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
Item details
- ISBN: 9780593182710
- ISBN: 0593182715
- Physical Description: xx, 348 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: [New York, New York] : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2021]
Contents / Notes
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-334) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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| Subject: | Life sciences. Life (Biology) SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology / General. Life (Biology) Life sciences |
| Genre: | Instructional and educational works. Creative nonfiction. |
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