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Life's Edge
- The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
- De: Carl Zimmer
- Narrado por: Joe Ochman
- Duración: 9 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 359
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 293
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 290
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.
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What is Life?
- De Shane S Shull en 04-29-21
- Life's Edge
- The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
- De: Carl Zimmer
- Narrado por: Joe Ochman
Looking for the initiation of life from chemistry?
Revisado: 12-06-22
About 80% of the book talks about the boundary of life and death. The terminal boundary so to speak. Interesting, but I was looking for the initial boundary of when chemical reactions become life. The last 20% explores this pretty well.
I had known about cell theory and auto catalytic reactions. But, the work on assembly theory as a defining criteria was new to me and I like the
This is an easy to understand discussion. A good start for inquiring minds, but you will have to dig deeper for a scientific explanation. I just finished the book and have not looked to see if the references are useful.
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