Life's edge: the search for what it means to be alive

Introduction: The borderland

The quickening. The way the spirit comes to the bones ; Death is resisted

The hallmarks. Dinner ; Decisive matter ; Preserving constant the conditions of life ; Copy/Paste ; Darwin's lung

A series of dark questions. This astonishing multiplication ; Irritations ; The sect ; This mud was actually alive ; A play of water ; Scripts

Return to the borderland. Half life ; Data needed for a blueprint ; No obvious bushes ; Four blue droplets.