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Mendel's Ark - Biotechnology and the Future of Extinction (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
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Mendel's Ark - Biotechnology and the Future of Extinction (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
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Does extinction have to be forever? As the global extinction crisis
accelerates, conservationists and policy-makers increasingly use
advanced biotechnologies such as reproductive cloning, polymerase
chain reaction (PCR) and bioinformatics in the urgent effort to
save species. Mendel's Ark considers the ethical, cultural and
social implications of using these tools for wildlife conservation.
Drawing upon sources ranging from science to science fiction, it
focuses on the stories we tell about extinction and the meanings we
ascribe to nature and technology. The use of biotechnology in
conservation is redrawing the boundaries between animals and
machines, nature and artifacts, and life and death. The new
rhetoric and practice of de-extinction will thus have significant
repercussions for wilderness and for society. The degree to which
we engage collectively with both the prosaic and the fantastic
aspects of biotechnological conservation will shape the boundaries
and ethics of our desire to restore lost worlds.
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