Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive One of History's Most Iconic Extinct Creatures
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (747 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B071ZZVYHQ |
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| Number of Pages | : | 327 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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More than a story of genetics, this is a thriller illuminating the race against global warming, the incredible power of modern technology, the brave fossil hunters who battle polar bears and extreme weather conditions, and the ethical quandary of cloning extinct animals. A group of young scientists, under the guidance of Dr. Can we right the wrongs of our ancestors who hunted the woolly mammoth to extinction - and at what cost?. George Church, the most brilliant geneticist of our time, works to make fantasy reality by sequencing the DNA of a frozen woolly mammoth harvested from above the Arctic Circle and splicing elements of that sequence into the DNA of a modern elephant. "With his knack for turning narrative nonfiction into stories worthy of the best thriller fiction" (Omnivoracious), Ben Mezrich takes us on an exhilarating true adventure story from the icy terrain of Siberia to the cutting-edge genetic labs of Harvard University. Science fiction becomes reality in this Jurassic Park-like story of the genetic resurrection of an extinct species - the woolly mammoth - by t
Great read Wolfhound Wonderful book, much too short.. MIDASCAT said Five Stars. GREAT. Quest to resurrect the woolly mammoth and other extinct species As a fan of all things Pleistocene, Ben Mezrich’s book jumped out at me from a display table at Dallas’ newest independent bookstore, Interabang Books. How could I resist a title like Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive One of History&rsqu