What Does It Mean To Be Alive?
b'For centuries, stories about the origin of life have gripped us, while attempts to understand and define it have confounded us as for every metric we use to measure and qualify life, inevitably there\\u2019s some microbe or animal that doesn\\u2019t quite fit the bill.\\n\\nSo, how do we answer this question and what does it mean to be a living thing anyway?\\n\\nCarl Zimmer, an award-winning New York Times columnist sought to discuss just that in his latest book - \\u2018Life\\u2019s Edge: The Search For What It Means To Be Alive\\u2019 - he joins Jonathan to discuss.'