How to Clone a Mammoth : : The Science of De-Extinction / / Beth Shapiro.
Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? The science says yes. In How to Clone a Mammoth, Beth Shapiro, evolutionary biologist and pioneer in "ancient DNA" research, walks readers through the astonishing and controversial process of de-extinction...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 16 color illus. 2 halftones. 9 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PROLOGUE
- Chapter 1. Reversing Extinction
- Chapter 2. Select a Species
- Chapter 3. Find a Well-Preserved Specimen
- Chapter 4. Create a Clone
- Chapter 5. Breed Them Back
- Chapter 6. Reconstruct the Genome
- Chapter 7. Reconstruct Part of the Genome
- Chapter 8. Now Create a Clone
- Chapter 9. Make More of Them
- Chapter 10. Set Them Free
- Chapter 11. Should We?
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES
- INDEX