Life's edge : the search for what it means to be alive / Carl Zimmer.

By:

Zimmer, Carl, 1966-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2022.Description: xx, 348 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780593182734
0593182731

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Additional physical formats: Online version:: Life's edgeDDC classification:

LOC classification:

QH 311 Z72l 2022

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

Summary: "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.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Humanidades	Humanidades (4to. Piso)	QH 311 Z72l 2022 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available	00000174536

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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