TY - BOOK AU - Zimmer,Carl TI - Life's edge: the search for what it means to be alive SN - 9780593182734 AV - QH 311 Z72l 2022 U1 - 570 PY - 2022/// CY - New York PB - Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC KW - Life sciences KW - Ciencias de la vida KW - Life (Biology) KW - Vida (Biología) KW - Biología N1 - 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 N2 - "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"-- ER -