The Re-origin of Species: A Second Chance for Extinct Animals - Couverture souple

Kornfeldt, Torill

 
9781947534360: The Re-origin of Species: A Second Chance for Extinct Animals
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ISBN 10 : 194753436X ISBN 13 : 9781947534360
Editeur : Scribe Pubns Pty Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

Journalist Torill Kornfeldt travelled the world to meet the scientists working to bring extinct animals back from the dead. Along the way, she has seen the mammoth that has been frozen for 20,000 years, and visited the places where these furry giants will live again.

From the Siberian permafrost to the Californian desert, scientists across the globe are working to resurrect all kinds of extinct animals, from ones that just left us to those that have been gone for many thousands of years. Their tools in this hunt are the fossil record and cutting edge genetic technologies. Some of these scientists are driven by sheer curiosity; others view the lost species as a powerful weapon in the fight to preserve rapidly changing ecosystems. It seems certain that these animals will walk the earth again, but what world will that give us? And is any of this a good idea? Science journalist Torill Kornfeldt travelled the globe to meet the men and women working to bring these animals back from the dead and answer these questions.

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À propos des auteurs

Torill Kornfeldt is a Swedish science journalist with a background in biology. She has worked for Sweden's leading morning newspaper and leading public broadcaster. Her focus is on how emerging bioengineering and technology will shape our future. The Re-origin of Species is her first book.



Fiona Graham is a British literary translator, editor, and reviewer who has lived in Kenya, Germany, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Nicaragua, and Belgium. Her recent translations include Elisabeth Åsbrink's 1947: when now begins, an English PEN award-winner longlisted for the Warwick Women in Translation Prize and the JQ Wingate Prize, and Torill Kornfeldt's The Unnatural Selection of Our Species.

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Éditeur
Scribe Pubns Pty Ltd
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
194753436X
ISBN 13 
9781947534360
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
242
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1911617222 ISBN 13 :  9781911617228
Editeur : Scribe Publications, 2018
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