Could it really happen? Could modern sci-entists using cutting-edge laboratory tech-niques really clone living, breathing,hungry dinosaurs and populate a true-to-life Jurassic Park?
Prepare yourself for a deliciously fun-filled romp to that outer edge where the science fiction of today is approaching the hard science of tomorrow. You ll explore the possibilities with two scientists intimately familiar with this world:Rob DeSalle,an associate curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City,who isolated some of the oldest DNA encased in amber, and David Lindley, a physicist and editor at Science News magazine.
Of course,Jurassic Park and its sequel ,the Lost World,skillfully combine hard science with litera-ry license. But how much of each was in the mix?
Along with delightful and fascinating facts and factoids-including Jurassic Park and The Lost World movie bloopers-readers will learn:
Why amber from the Dominican Republic,a Carib-DNA from a mosquito that had lived at least 65 mil-lion years ago and had the misfortune, just seconds after it had indulged itself in a tasty swig of dinosaur blood,to be completely "embalmed"-preserved in amber dripping from a nearby tree.
How scientists might go about getting a com-plete genetic blueprint of a long-extinct creature, and why they know that doing so is not enough tore-create life.
Why the hardest part of the process may be find-ing an egg that "knows"everything a dinosaur egg would have known about turning DNA material into a living dinosaur.
Why a real Jurassic Park would have to be much more than a twenty-two square mile preserve-more likely an area about as big state of Connecticut.
Here is a book that fans of Jurassic Park,The Lost World,and dinosaur devotees everywhere will relish. |
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