Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive Condition:Well Read and Michael Acton Smith

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Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive Condition:Well Read and Michael Acton SmithCarl 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 cant 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 societys most charged conflicts whether a fertilized