Dispatches from life's blurry boundaries Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive Carl Zimmer Dutton, 2021. 368 pp
How we think about what it means to be alive will always depend on what questions we ask Carl Zimmer's Life's Edge is a departure from his previous work in that it is a book that is as much about what scientists have so far failed to understand as what they have come to understand. As its...
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| Published in | Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Vol. 371; no. 6534; p. 1113 |
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| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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12.03.2021
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| Online Access | Get full text |
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| Summary: | How we think about what it means to be alive will always depend on what questions we ask
Carl Zimmer's
Life's Edge
is a departure from his previous work in that it is a book that is as much about what scientists have so far failed to understand as what they have come to understand. As its subtitle suggests, this book is about how life is defined, how life arose, and how we tell life from nonlife. |
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| ISSN: | 0036-8075 1095-9203 |
| DOI: | 10.1126/science.abg4672 |