Life as We Made It - Beth Shapiro
Life as We Made It - Beth Shapiro A Times Best Book of 2021 From the very first dog to glowing fish and designer pigs - the human history of remaking nature. But the idea that humans have only…
Specifikacia Life as We Made It - Beth Shapiro
Life as We Made It - Beth Shapiro
A Times Best Book of 2021 From the very first dog to glowing fish and designer pigs - the human history of remaking nature. But the idea that humans have only recently begun to tinker with the natural world is false. Virus-free mosquitoes, resurrected dinosaurs, designer humans - such is the power of the science of tomorrow.
Drawing on decades of research, Beth Shapiro reveals the surprisingly long history of human intervention in evolution - for good and for ill - and looks ahead to the future, casting aside scaremongering myths about the dangers of interference. We've been meddling with nature since the last ice age, and we're getting a lot better at it. New biotechnologies can present us with the chance to improve our own lives, and increase the likelihood that we will continue to live in a rich and biologically diverse world.
