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Zusatztext 'In her cleverly titled book! The Re-origin of the Species ! Swedish science journalist Torill Kornfeldt examines the world's most famous (or perhaps most infamous) attempts to resurrect extinct species ... Crisscrossing the globe to interview the world's leading experts on de-extinction! she offers her personal impressions of their laboratories! their research! and even their motivations ... The Re-Origin of the Species is a welcome addition to the growing corpus on de-extinction! and a strong debut by a gifted writer.' Informationen zum Autor Torill Kornfeldt is a Swedish science journalist with a background in biology. She has worked for Sweden’s leading newspaper Dagens Nyheter and for Swedish public radio. Fiona Graham is a British literary translator, editor, and reviewer who has lived in Kenya, Germany, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Nicaragua, and Belgium. Her recent translations include Elisabeth Åsbrink’s 1947: when now begins , an English PEN award-winner longlisted for the Warwick Women in Translation Prize and the JQ Wingate Prize, and Torill Kornfeldt’s The Unnatural Selection of Our Species . Klappentext As scientific advances make the re-animation of dodos, mammoths and aurochs a certainty, science journalist Torill Kornfeldt explores whether this is a good idea or whether extinction serves a nuanced function. Zusammenfassung A Telegraph Book of the Year. What does a mammoth smell like? Do dinosaurs bob their heads as they walk, like today’s birds? Do aurochs moo like cows? You may soon find out. From the Siberian permafrost to balmy California, scientists across the globe are working to resurrect all kinds of extinct animals, from ones that just left us to those that have been gone for many thousands of years. Their tools in this hunt are both fossils and cutting-edge genetic technologies. Some of these scientists are driven by sheer curiosity; others view the lost species as a powerful weapon in the fight to save rapidly disappearing ecosystems. Science journalist Torill Kornfeldt travelled the world to meet the men and women working to bring extinct animals back from the dead. Along the way, she saw a mammoth that has been frozen for 20,000 years, and visited the places where these furry giants once walked. It seems certain that they and other lost species will walk the earth again, but what world will that give us? And is any of this a good idea? ...
