Title:
Resurrection science : conservation, de-extinction and the precarious future of wild things
Author:
Publication Date:
2015
Publication Information:
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2015.
Physical Description:
266 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN:
9781137279293
Abstract:
"A tour of current advances in biology and ethics demonstrates how humans are increasingly in control of evolution, exploring how as the scientific community endeavors to save near-extinct species, the creatures being saved become less wild and more dependent, "--Novelist.
Contents:
An ark of toads: Nectophrynoides asperginis -- Tracking chimeras in the Fakahatchee Strand: Puma concolor coryi -- Exuberant evolution in a desert fish: Cyprinodon tularosa -- Mysteries of the whale called 1334: Eubalaena glacialis -- Freezing crows: Corvus hawaiiensis -- Metaphysical rhinos: Ceratotherium simum cottoni -- Regenesis of the passenger pigeon: Neo-Ectopistes migratorius -- Nice to meet you, Neanderthal: Homo neanderthalensis -- Coda. Ultima Thule: ends of the earth.
Genre:
Language:
English
