Life as we made it : how 50,000 years of human innovation refined - and redefined - nature
Shapiro, Beth Alison2022
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From the very first dog to glowing fish and designer pigs - the human history of remaking nature. Virus-free mosquitoes, resurrected dinosaurs, designer humans. Such is the power of the science of tomorrow. But this idea that we have only recently begun to manipulate the natural world is false. We've been meddling with nature since the last ice age. It's just that we're getting better at it - a lot better. Drawing on decades of research, Beth Shapiro reveals the surprisingly long history of human intervention in evolution through hunting, domesticating, polluting, hybridizing, conserving and genetically modifying life on Earth.
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Author:
Shapiro, Beth Alison, author
Imprint:
London : Oneworld, 2022.
Collation:
352 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9780861544370 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
304.2304.2 SHAP
Language:
English
BRN:
535648
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