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 …

Does extinction have to be forever? As the global extinction crisis accelerates,
conservationists and policy-makers increasingly use advanced biotechnologies such as …

In the twenty-first century, because of climate change and other human activities, many
animal species have become extinct, and many others are at risk of extinction. Once they are …

** 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 …

Among the most egregious and discouraging problems of conservation is the rapidly
escalating human‐caused species extinction rate.“De‐extinction” refers to the application of …

Humankind is currently confronted with what some biologists call the sixth mass extinction of
species in the history of life on Earth, and the first one triggered by humans. This essay …

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 …

The emergence of de‐extinction is a study in technological optimism. What has already
been accomplished in recovering ancient genomes, recreating them, and reproducing …

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 …

It has been estimated that three species on the planet now go extinct every hour and that this
rate is orders of magnitude higher than the planet has seen in previous catastrophic …