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“Stories that both dazzle and edify… This book is not just about life, but about discovery itself. It is about error and hubris, but also about wonder and the reach of science.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, New York Times Book ReviewWe 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. Is the apple sitting on your kitchen counter alive, or is only the apple tree it came from deserving of the word? If we can’t answer that question here on earth, how will we know when and if we discover alien life on other worlds? The question hangs over some of society’s most charged conflicts—whether a fertilized egg is a living person, for example, and when we ought to declare a person legally dead.   Life's Edge is an utterly fascinating investigation that no one but one of the most celebrated science writers of our generation could craft. Zimmer journeys through the strange experiments that have attempted to re-create life. Literally hundreds of definitions of what that should look like now exist, but none has yet emerged as an obvious winner. Lists of what living things have in common do not add up to a theory of life. It's never clear why some items on the list are essential and others not. Coronaviruses have altered the course of history, and yet many scientists maintain they are not alive. Chemists are creating droplets that can swarm, sense their environment, and multiply. Have they made life in the lab?   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. He tries his own hand at evolving life in a test tube with unnerving results. Charting the obsession with Dr. Frankenstein's monster and how Coleridge came to believe the whole universe was alive, Zimmer leads us all the way into the labs and minds of researchers working on engineering life from the ground up.

At this time of writing, The Audiobook Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive has garnered 9 customer reviews with rating of 5 out of 5 stars. Not a bad score at all as if you round it off, it’s actually a perfect TEN already. From the looks of that rating, we can say the Audiobook is Good TO READ!

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The celebrity endorsements are all true. Great book, a gripping read and an education, and exceptionally well-written.Some sentences and terminology did jar a bit: “[Darwin] hypothesized that a process he called natural selection would favor the variations that helped with surviving and having offspring.” Darwin observed that animal breeders and plant growers cull - artificially de-select - organisms that have undesirable variations; so-called natural selection is just an (increasingly obsolete) shorthand for what goes on automatically in nature when some organisms happen to reproduce successfully while others don’t. The quoted sentence is tautological.Also: “[Virus mutations] may speed up the time it takes [for the virus] to replicate. They may enable a mutant virus to become invisible on the immune system’s radar. These viruses will be favored by natural selection.” Suggest: These viruses will likely spread faster and farther than they would have otherwise.And finally: “[Viruses] can evolve resistance to antiviral drugs. They can evolve to adapt to a new host species." Viruses do not adapt in any active sense. Their replicates vary, always and unavoidably, due to imperfect copying of RNA/DNA and to mutations. Some variations might happen to enable the virus to replicate for the first time inside another host species.But these are small matters. Great book.

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