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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Table of Contents:
- 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.
