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Zimmer, Carl, 1966- author.
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Life (Biology).
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Life's edge : the se...
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Life's edge : the search for what it means to be alive / Carl Zimmer.
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Zimmer, Carl, 1966- author.
New York : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2021]
Subjects
Life sciences.
Life (Biology).
ISBN:
9780593182710 (hardcover)
0593182715 (hardcover)
Description:
xx, 348 pages ; 24 cm
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.
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What is life? The power seems obvious until you try to seriously answer it. Zimmer journeys through experiments that have attempted to recreate life; shows how coronaviruses have altered the course of history; and even tries his own had at evolving life in a test tube... with unnerving results. -- adapted from jacket
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570 Zimmer
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