Woolly : the true story of the quest to revive one of history's most iconic extinct creatures
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Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2017.
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Large Print
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Large print edition.
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Sequim - Large Print Nonfiction
LP 591.68 MEZRICH
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LP 591.68 MEZRICH
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Published
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
367 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-362).
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Ben Mezrich takes us on a true adventure story from the icy terrain of Siberia to the cutting-edge genetic labs of Harvard University. A group of young scientists, under the guidance of Dr. 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. Will they be able to turn the hybrid cells into a functional embryo and bring the extinct creatures to life in our modern world? Along with Church and his team of Harvard scientists, a world-famous conservationist and a genius Russian scientist plan to turn a tract of the Siberian tundra into Pleistocene Park, populating the permafrost with ancient herbivores as a hedge against an environmental ticking time bomb. More than a story of genetics, this is a thriller illuminating the race against global warming, the power of modern technology, the fossil hunters who battle polar bears and extreme weather conditions, and the ethical quandary of cloning extinct animals. Can we right the wrongs of our ancestors who hunted the woolly mammoth to extinction -- and at what cost?