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How To Build A Dinosaur
Jack Horner
Extinction Doesn't Have To Be Forever
Dutton
March 2009
On Sale: March 19, 2009
320 pages
ISBN: 0525951040
EAN: 9780525951049
Hardcover
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A world-renowned paleontologist takes readers all over the
globe to reveal a new science that trumps science fiction:
how humans can re-create a dinosaur. In movies, in novels,
in comic strips, and on television, we’ve all seen
dinosaurs—or at least somebody’s educated guess of what they
would look like. But what if it were possible to build, or
grow, a real dinosaur, without finding ancient DNA? Jack
Horner, the scientist who advised Steven Spielberg on
Jurassic Park, and a pioneer in bringing paleontology into
the twenty-first century, teams up with the editor of The
New York Times,/I>’s Science Times section to reveal
exactly what’s in store. In the 1980s, Horner began using
CAT scans to look inside fossilized dinosaur eggs, and he
and his colleagues have been delving deeper ever since. At
North Carolina State University, Mary Schweitzer has
extracted fossil molecules—proteins that survived 68 million
years—from a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil excavated by Horner.
These proteins show that T. rex and the modern chicken are
kissing cousins. At McGill University, Hans Larsson is
manipulating a chicken embryo to awaken the dinosaur within:
starting by growing a tail and eventually prompting it to
grow the forelimbs of a dinosaur. All of this is happening
without changing a single gene. This incredible research is
leading to discoveries and applications so profound they’re
scary in the power they confer on humanity. How to Build a
Dinosaur is a tour of the hot rocky deserts and
air-conditioned laboratories at the forefront of this
scientific revolution.
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