In stories of sixteenth-century galleon excavations, panther-tracking in Florida swamps, ancient African rainforests, Neanderthal tool-making, and cryogenic DNA banks, O'Connor investigates the philosophical questions of an age in which we "play god" with earth's biodiversity.Įach chapter in this beautifully written book focuses on a unique species-from the charismatic northern white rhinoceros to the infamous passenger pigeon-and the people entwined in the animals' fates. Paradoxically, the more we intervene to save species, the less wild they often become. Her first book, Resurrection Science: Conservation, De-Extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild Things, was published by St. O’Connor explores the extreme measures that scientists are taking to try and save them, from captive breeding and translocating genetically rare. O'Connor plumbs the ways synthetic biology might recreate an extinct pigeon, a Hail-Mary gamble in Africa to save a vanishing toad with the world's biggest sprinkler system, and the bioethics of bringing living Neanderthals back to the 21st century. O'Connor explores the extreme measures scientists are taking to try and save them, from captive breeding and genetic management to de-extinction. In a world dominated by people and rapid climate change, species large and small are increasingly vulnerable to extinction.
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