Life's Edge: The Search for What it Means to Be Alive by Carl Zimmer

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.

Carl Zimmer investigates one of the biggest questions of all: What is life? The answer seems obvious until you try to seriously answer it.
Life's Edge is an utterly fascinating investigation that no one but one of the most celebrated science writers of our generation could craft. Whether he is handling pythons in Alabama or searching for hibernating bats in the Adirondacks, Zimmer revels in astounding examples of life at its most bizarre... Zimmer leads us all the way into the labs and minds of researchers engineering life from scratch.

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