Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive one of History's Most Iconic Extinct Creatures Audiobook (Free) | AudioBooksLoft

Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive one of History’s Most Iconic Extinct Creatures Audiobook (Free)

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The bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and The 37th Parallel tells the fascinating Jurassic Park­-like story from the genetic restoration of an extinct species-the woolly mammoth. “Paced such as a thriller…Woolly reanimates background and breathes new life in to the narrative of nature” (NPR).

Along with his “unparalleled” (Booklist, starred evaluate) writing, Ben Mezrich takes us on an exhilarating and true adventure story in the icy terrain of Siberia towards the cutting-edge genetic labs of about Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive one of History’s Most Iconic Extinct Creatures Harvard University. A group of scientists work to create fantasy reality by splicing DNA from frozen woolly mammoth into the DNA of a modern elephant. Will they be able to turn the hybrid cells right into a functional embryo and potentially bring the extinct creatures to our contemporary world?

Additionally team of outstanding scientists, a millionaire programs to construct the world’s 1st Pleistocene Park and populate a huge tract from the Siberian tundra with historic herbivores like a hedge against an environmental ticking time bomb that’s hidden deep within the permafrost. Greater than a story of genetics, that is a thriller illuminating the real-life competition against global warming, of the incredible power of modern technology, of the brave fossil hunters who battle polar bears and intense weather conditions, as well as the honest quandary of cloning extinct pets. This “rollercoaster search for the past and future” (Christian Technology Monitor) asks us if we can right the wrongs of our ancestors who hunted the woolly mammoth to extinction and at what cost?