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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 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 incredible power of modern technology, the brave 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 Best Download Woolly by Ben Mezrich For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Mezrich picks interesting topics, I will concede that Readers may already have heard some years ago that a Harvard lab was working on de extinction of the Woolly Mammoth Mezrich brings us up to date on this project indeed, the first and last chapters in this nonfiction are set in the future.If you are familiar with Mezrich s writing, the author weights the concept narrative nonfiction heavily on the narrative and fiction sides, ostensibly to stoke momentum and get folks int...Woolly The True Story of the De Extinction of One of History s Most Iconic Creatures by Ben Mezrich is the story of Dr Church and his colleague s advancements in genome engineering Mezrich graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Social Studies from Harvard University in 1991 Some of his books have been written under the pseudonym, Holden Scott He is best known for Bringing Down the House The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions and The Accidental Billionaires Th Woolly The True Story of the De Extinction of One of History s Most Iconic Creatures by Ben Mezrich is the story of Dr Church and his colleague s advancements in genome engineering Mezrich graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Social Studies from Harvar...The story told in this book was fascinating, but I found the creative nonfiction method employed in telling it waaaay too creative I actually spent the first thirty pages or so trying to make sure the book was actually nonfiction at all Some Googling proved that, yes, these people are real and are actually doing what the book purports attempting to de extinct the woolly mammoth through cutting edge genetic engineering Fascinating But the book seemed in such a rush to be fascinating and to s The story told in this book was fascinating, but I found the creative nonfiction method employed in telling it waaaay too creative I actuall...A great overview of what s been happening in the mammoth restoration project Is there a satisfying conclusion Or course not, unless I missed that mammoth herd from the latest Discovery Channel documentary This is a work in progress a tediously complicated task of figuring out how to bring back an animal that s been extinct for thousands of years, and whose DNA is not readily available to the science to play with This is not a cloning project per se, but a reconstruction effort a reverse A great overview of what s been happening in the mammoth restoration project Is there a satisfying conclusion Or course not, unless I missed that mammoth herd from the latest Discovery Channel documentary This is a work in progress a tediously...The topic of the book is an interesting story of science, and the central figure, George Church, truly is brilliant and awesome I actually use some of the techniques mentioned in the book in my own work However, the story is told in such an over dramatic, hyperbolic style as to be nearly unreadable Mezrich has really done h...Literally this was my fantasy while ignoring the teachers in AP bio I have wanted a woolly mammoth since I was a little girl, and I am 100% on board for this thedreamlivesI don t think I m going to keep reading this book, barely even nonfiction I was very uncomfortable with the novelistic invented dialogue and scene setting, all of which is unnecessary if the source material is interesting.Fascinating look at the science of genetics and a project that may one day bring the Woolly Mammoth back to life.I was hoping for something different perhaps that colored my opinion not that good as I said, hoped it would be differentThe juice wasn t worth the squeeze on this one not his best topic Highlight was learning a littleabout the cloning vs DNA alteration options when it comes to bringing back the extinct hardpass

Woolly
  • 15 July 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 304 pages
  • 1501135554
  • Ben Mezrich
  • Woolly