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Author:
Carl Zimmer
Publisher:
Dutton
Date:
March 9, 2021
Charting the obsession with Dr. Frankenstein's monster and how Coleridge came to believe the whole universe was alive, Popular science writer Carl Zimmer leads readers all the way into the labs and minds of researchers working on engineering life from the ground up, asking: What does it mean to live?
What The Reviewers Say
... elegant, deeply researched.
One has the feeling, while reading this book, of fumbling through the unknown.
No mere catalogue of errors, Life’s Edge guides us from an abandoned mine in the Adirondacks where bats hang in homeostatic slumber to a California start-up attempting to synthesize RNA-based medications. With these and other examples, Zimmer illustrates why it is so difficult to arrive at a common understanding of where life stops and starts—and how we might one day reach it.
Zimmer diligently tackles the true definition of life.
