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Life's edge : the search for what it means to be alive / Carl Zimmer. by Zimmer, Carl, author. [New York, New York] : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2021] 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. Summary:  "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"---Provided by publisher. 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 Notes:  Purchased with grant funds from the State Library of Iowa and Institute of Museum and Library Services   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Peosta Library Circulation Stacks 570 Zim 2021 Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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