Life's Edge
The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
by Carl Zimmer
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"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"--
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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Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
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"In the fall of 1904, the Cavendish Laboratory was full of curious experiments."
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Largely scientific examinations of what life is and how it came to be.
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