Living and inanimate. Zimmer K.

How to distinguish living from inanimate? Where to draw the border between them? At first glance, children's questions. Nevertheless, for many centuries, scientists and philosophers cannot come to the response satisfying everyone. This problem is what life is - and the new book of Karl Zimmer is devoted. The author believes that there is no other field of human knowledge, which would be given so many definitions. Will it be possible to find the only and unconditionally true? After all, manifestations of life are a great many! And at the same time, can the virus be considered alive? And the erythrocyte or organoid? - a fertilized egg - alive? Is it possible to state the death of a person whose brain died, but the body is functioning? Dark questions! The brilliant popularizer of science, already well familiar to the Russian -speaking audience, invites the reader to the next feast of scientific thought. So what - the author managed to find the answer, did he achieve his goal? A truly intriguing narrative awaits us!