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Life's Edge - Searching for What It Means to Be Alive by Carl Zimmer
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Category: Science & Natural History
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 ...Show more
Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive by Carl Zimmer
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Category: Science & Natural History
<b>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. And it is bookended with the ultimate question: How do we define the thing that defines us? - Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of <i>The Gene</i>&l ...Show more
Planet of Viruses - Third Edition by Carl Zimmer
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Category: Science & Natural History
In 2020, an invisible germ--a virus--wholly upended our lives. We're most familiar with the viruses that give us colds or Covid-19. But viruses also cause a vast range of other diseases, including one disorder that makes people sprout branch-like growths as if they were trees. Viruses have been a part o ...Show more
She Has Her Mother's Laugh by Carl Zimmer
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Category: Science & Natural History
Heredity is redefined in this sweeping, resonating overview of a force that shaped human society--a force set to shape our future even more radically. "Extraordinary"--New York Times Book Review "Magisterial"--The Atlantic"Engrossing"--Wired"Leading contender as the most outstanding nonfiction work ...Show more
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Story of Heredity, Its Past Present and Future by Carl Zimmer
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Category: Science & Natural History
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION She Has Her Mother's Laugh presents a profoundly original perspective on what we pass along from generation to generation. Charles Darwin played a crucial part in turning heredity into a scientific question, and yet he failed spectacularly ...Show more
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