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How to Build a Dinosaur: The New Science of Reverse Evolution
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How to Build a Dinosaur: The New Science of Reverse Evolution Paperback - 2010

by Jack Horner; James Gorman

A world-renowned paleontologist teams up with a "New York Times" science writer to reveal a new science that trumps science fiction: how humans can re-create a dinosaur.


Summary

A world-renowned paleontologist reveals groundbreaking science that trumps science fiction: how to grow a living dinosaur

Over a decade after Jurassic Park, Jack Horner and his colleagues in molecular biology labs are in the process of building the technology to create a real dinosaur.

Based on new research in evolutionary developmental biology on how a few select cells grow to create arms, legs, eyes, and brains that function together, Jack Horner takes the science a step further in a plan to "reverse evolution" and reveals the awesome, even frightening, power being acquired to recreate the prehistoric past. The key is the dinosaur's genetic code that lives on in modern birds- even chickens. From cutting-edge biology labs to field digs underneath the Montana sun, How to Build a Dinosaur explains and enlightens an awesome new science.



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  • Title How to Build a Dinosaur: The New Science of Reverse Evolution
  • Author Jack Horner; James Gorman
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Plume Books
  • Date 2010-02-23
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780452296015 / 0452296013
  • Weight 0.47 lbs (0.21 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.14 x 5.26 x 0.58 in (20.68 x 13.36 x 1.47 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Evolutionary paleobiology, Dinosaurs - Extinction
  • Dewey Decimal Code 567.9

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About the author

John "Jack" Horner is one of the world's foremost paleontologists, credited with finding the first dinosaur eggs in the Western Hemisphere, the first evidence of dinosaur colonial nesting, the first evidence of parental care among dinosaurs, and the first dinosaur embryos. He served as the inspiration for Paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant in Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park, and as the technical advisor on all of the Jurassic Park films. Horner is Curator of Paleontology at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, and Regents Professor of Paleontology at Montana State University.

James Gorman is deputy science editor of the New York Times and editor of its Science Times section.

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