Life's edge the search for what it means to be alive
"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"--
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[New York, New York] :
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC,
[2021]
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| 100 | 1 | |a Zimmer, Carl, |d 1966- |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Life's edge : |b the search for what it means to be alive / |c Carl Zimmer. |
| 264 | 1 | |a [New York, New York] : |b Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, |c [2021] | |
| 300 | |a xx, 348 pages ; |c 24 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-334) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a "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"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Life sciences. | |
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