Bastian Greshake Tzovaras reviewed What is life? by Lynn Margulis
Review of 'What is life?' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
«What is Life?» is probably what should be the central question of biology. After all, the fancy term just means 'the study of life'. But biologists are having a notoriously hard time defining it. For example the jury is still out (well, at least in some camps) on whether to classify viruses as alive or not.
Here Lynn Margulis (yes, she of endosymbiont theory-fame) takes us through all the different ways one can look at the question of «What is Life?». If you have some deeper training in biology it's probably nothing new for you, but it's well written and lots of fun. It also features nice pictures and interesting philosophical angles.
Recommended: For those curious about biology in a very large and abstract sense.