This book considers the cultural history and politics of de-extinction, an approach to wildlife conservation that seeks to use advanced biotechnologies for genetic rescue, crisis …
Would it be cool to see woolly mammoth alive one day? Disappeared species have always fascinated the human mind. A new discussion of using genomic technologies to reverse …
L Evans Ogden - BioScience, 2014 - academic.oup.com
In 1984, the creation of a wooly mammoth–elephant hybrid hit the headlines in more than 350 US newspapers. The news source: the April issue of MIT Technology Review. The …
** A Library Journal Best Book of 2015**** A Christian Science Monitor Top Ten Book of September** In a world dominated by people and rapid climate change, species large and …
GE Kaebnick - Hastings Center Report, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The emergence of de‐extinction is a study in technological optimism. What has already been accomplished in recovering ancient genomes, recreating them, and reproducing …
AL Fletcher - Review of Policy Research, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Amid the current biodiversity crisis and the ongoing threat of mass extinctions caused by modern anthropogenic factors such as industrialization, poaching and habitat destruction …
Winner of the Sierra Club's 2021 Rachel Carson Award One of Chicago Tribune's Ten Best Books of 2021 Named a Top Ten Best Science Book of 2021 by Booklist and Smithsonian …
A groundbreaking examination of the implications of synthetic biology for biodiversity conservation Nature almost everywhere survives on human terms. The distinction between …
C Friese - Cloning Wild Life, 2013 - degruyter.com
The natural world is marked by an ever-increasing loss of varied habitats, a growing number of species extinctions, and a full range of new kinds of dilemmas posed by global warming …