Life's edge : the search for what it means to be alive /
Zimmer, Carl, 1966-
Life's edge : the search for what it means to be alive / Carl Zimmer. - New York : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2022. - xx, 348 pages ; 24 cm.
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"--
9780593182734 0593182731
2020039762
Life sciences.
Ciencias de la vida
Life (Biology)
Vida (Biología)
Biología
QH 311 / Z72l 2022
570
Life's edge : the search for what it means to be alive / Carl Zimmer. - New York : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2022. - xx, 348 pages ; 24 cm.
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"--
9780593182734 0593182731
2020039762
Life sciences.
Ciencias de la vida
Life (Biology)
Vida (Biología)
Biología
QH 311 / Z72l 2022
570