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Woolly : the True Story of the Quest to Revive One of History's Most Iconic Extinct Creatures by Brand, Stewart;Church, George McDonald;Mezrich, Ben is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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

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Author

Brand, Stewart;Church, George McDonald;Mezrich, Ben

Publisher

Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501135576

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, History, Biography

Rating

3.57 / 5 (539 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14