Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive

How to distinguish living from non-living? Where is the border between them? At first glance, children's questions. Nevertheless, scientists and philosophers have not been able to come up with a satisfactory answer for many centuries. This topic - what is life - is the subject of a new book by Karl Zimmer. The author believes that there is no other object of scientific knowledge, which would be gi...