Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive One of History’s Most Iconic Extinct Creatures

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Science fiction becomes reality on this Jurassic Park-like story of the genetic resurrection of an extinct species—the woolly mammoth—by the bestselling writer of The Accidental Billionaires and The 37th Parallel.

“With his knack for turning narrative nonfiction into stories worthy of the most efficient thriller fiction” (Omnivoracious), Ben Mezrich takes us on an exhilarating true adventure story from the icy terrain of Siberia to the state of the art 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 brand new elephant. Will they have the ability to turn the hybrid cells into a functional embryo and bring the extinct creatures to life in our brand new 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 time bomb. More than a story of genetics, it is a thriller illuminating the race against global warming, the improbable power of brand new technology, the brave fossil hunters who battle polar bears and extreme weather conditions, and the ethical dilemma of cloning extinct animals. Are we able to right the wrongs of our ancestors who hunted the woolly mammoth to extinction—and at what cost?

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