Zimmer, Carl,   1966- <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: The borderland<br/>The quickening, The way the spirit comes to the bones ; Death is resisted<br/>The hallmarks. Dinner ; Decisive matter ; Preserving constant the conditions of life ; Copy/Paste ; Darwin's lung<br/>A series of dark questions. This astonishing multiplication ; Irritations ; The sect ; This mud was actually alive ; A play of water ; Scripts<br/>Return to the borderland. Half life ; Data needed for a blueprint ; No obvious bushes ; Four blue droplets 
<br/><br/> "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"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780593182734 0593182731 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2020039762 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Life sciences.<br/>Ciencias de la vida <br/>Life (Biology)<br/>Vida (Biología) <br/>Biología
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QH 311  / Z72l 2022 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>570