Life's EdgeThe Search for What It Means to Be Alive
Carl Zimmer - 2021-03-09
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Life's Edge explores the elusive answer to the age-old question: what is life? From protocells to pandemic viruses, science struggles to locate life's edge. Author Carl Zimmer delves into the philosophical, societal, and scientific implications of determining what qualifies as living, including controversies around the beginning of life and determining legal death. Zimmer guides readers through the history of ideas about what constitutes life, all the way to current groundbreaking engineering of life in laboratories.