How to Build a Dinosaur - The New Science of Reverse Evolution

Zusatztext A Library Journal Best Science and Technology Book of the Year   “Horner is at his best: provocative yet firmly grounded in science… His goal is to make people think about how evolution works! and by extension! about our own origins.”— New Scientist   “Straight from the scientific frontier! Horner’s work should excite anyone who’s dreamed of walking with dinosaurs.”— Booklist   “Scientists can finally begin to answer evolutionary questions that have puzzled researchers for decades.”— Smithsonian Informationen zum Autor John R. Horner, known to most people as "Jack," is a world-famous paleontologist known for his fieldwork and research on dinosaur growth and behaviors and his important discoveries: the first dinosaur eggs and embryos in the Western Hemisphere and the first evidence of dinosaurs nesting in colonies and taking care of their babies. Never Stop Discovering describes Jack's attitude, an outlook formed as a young boy growing up in the plains of Montana. School was difficult for Jack because he is dyslexic, so he headed to the hills every chance he got to look for dinosaur bones. In those hills, Jack discovered dinosaurs and he discovered science. When Jack was in high school, he won the regional science fair for comparing dinosaurs from Montana and Canada. He went on to become a ground-breaking scientist and was granted an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Montana and received many awards in his long career, including a lifetime achievement award from the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology. He has been listed in Newton Graphic Magazine's top twenty-four leading world scientists. And four dinosaurs have been named after him! Jack worked with Universal Studios to imagine the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World dinosaurs and helped with the premier of the first Jurassic Park film in London with Diana, the Princess of Wales, and Steven Spielberg. Jack has written two books and coauthored seven books on dinosaurs, including three books for children. Today he teaches at Chapman University, continues his research on dinosaurs, including the "Dino-Chicken" project, and works with Horner Science Group to bring new dinosaur stories and experiences to the world. In his spare time, he studies the stars and Earth's landscapes and takes a lot of photographs. He also plays with his favorite dinosaur, a parrot named Birdy. Klappentext A world-renowned paleontologist reveals groundbreaking science that trumps science fiction: how to grow a living dinosaur. Over a decade after Jurassic Park , Jack Horner and his colleagues in molecular biology labs are in the process of building the technology to create a real dinosaur. Based on new research in evolutionary developmental biology on how a few select cells grow to create arms, legs, eyes, and brains that function together, Jack Horner takes the science a step further in a plan to "reverse evolution" and reveals the awesome, even frightening, power being acquired to recreate the prehistoric past. The key is the dinosaur's genetic code that lives on in modern birds- even chickens. From cutting-edge biology labs to field digs underneath the Montana sun, How to Build a Dinosaur explains and enlightens an awesome new science. Table of Contents   Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Introduction   Chapter 1 - HELL CREEK Chapter 2 - IT’S A GIRL! Chapter 3 - MOLECULES ARE FOSSILS TOO Chapter 4 - DINOSAURS AMONG US Chapter 5 - WHERE BABIES COME FROM Chapter 6 - WAG THE BIRD Chapter 7 - REVERSE EVOLUTION APPENDIX: - CHICKENOSAURUS SKELETON BIBLIOGRAPHY Acknowledgements INDEX DUTTON Published by Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. Penguin Group (Canada)...

Product details

• Authors: James Gorman, Jack Horner, Jack/ Gorman Horner
• Publisher: Plume USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 23.02.2010
• EAN: 9780452296015
• ISBN: 978-0-452-29601-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 203 mm x 13 mm
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Palaeontology