Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive One of History's Most Iconic Extinct Creatures
✍ Scribed by Mezrich, Ben
- Book ID
- 110018425
- Publisher
- Atria Books
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 784 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781501160417
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Science fiction becomes reality in this Jurassic Park -like story of the genetic resurrection of an extinct species--the woolly mammoth--by the bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and The 37th Parallel.
"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. 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...