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De-Extinction and the Genomics Revolution : Life on Demand / / by Amy Lynn Fletcher
| De-Extinction and the Genomics Revolution : Life on Demand / / by Amy Lynn Fletcher |
| Autore | Fletcher Amy Lynn |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2020.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2020 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (IX, 84 p. 4 illus.) |
| Disciplina |
300
333.95416 |
| Soggetto topico |
Social sciences
Social Sciences, general |
| ISBN | 3-030-25789-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Preface and Acknowledgments -- 2. Matters of Life and Death in the Anthropocene -- 3. The Secrets of All Inheritance: A Cultural History of DNA -- 4. Mammoths, Museums, and Molecules: A De-Extinction Icon Emerges -- 5. Conclusion: Life-on-Demand. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910370056503321 |
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| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2020 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Mendel's Ark : Biotechnology and the Future of Extinction / / by Amy Lynn Fletcher
| Mendel's Ark : Biotechnology and the Future of Extinction / / by Amy Lynn Fletcher |
| Autore | Fletcher Amy Lynn |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (104 p.) |
| Disciplina |
300
333.72 344.046 36370561 |
| Soggetto topico |
Biodiversity
Social sciences Environmental law Environmental policy Nature conservation Wildlife Fish Nature Environment Social Sciences, general Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice Nature Conservation Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management Popular Science in Nature and Environment |
| ISBN | 94-017-9121-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Contents""; ""Chapter 1 The Future of Extinction""; ""1.1 Goodbye to the Baiji""; ""1.2 Hello to the Anthropocene""; ""1.3 Wicked Problems and Socio-Technical Imaginaries""; ""1.4 Telling Stories about Extinction""; ""1.5 Taking Control of Nature's Realm""; ""1.6 The Once and Future Baiji""; ""References""; ""Chapter 2 A Political History of Extinction""; ""2.1 From Eden to Extinction� and Back Again?""; ""2.2 Fossils and Frontiers: Debating Extinction During the Enlightenment""; ""2.3 The Politics of Extinction in the Progressive Era""
""2.4 Spaceship Earth: Twentieth Century Environmentalism""""2.5 Climate, Catastrophe and Conservation Biology""; ""2.6 Everything Old is New Again: Biotechnology and De-Extinction""; ""References""; ""Chapter 3 Bio-Inventories: The Digitization of Nature""; ""3.1 They Had to Count Them All: Bioinformatics and DNA Barcoding""; ""3.2 Cracking the Code of Life: Bioinformatics in the Twentieth Century""; ""3.3 The Encyclopedia of Life""; ""3.4 A Barcode for Every Species""; ""3.4.1 Transforming Ecology: From Species to Genes""; ""3.4.2 The Taxonomic Impediment""; ""3.5 Digital Natures"" ""References""""Chapter 4 Bio-Interventions: Cloning Endangered Species as Wildlife Conservation""; ""4.1 Is Nature Over?""; ""4.2 The Molecular Frontier: Biotechnology and Life as Code""; ""4.3 From Wistar Rats to Oncomice: Engineering Animals""; ""4.4 Dolly and Polly: Animal Cloning Hits the Big Time""; ""4.5 Noah's Ark: Cloning on the Edge of Extinction""; ""4.6 Preservation in a Petri Dish""; ""References""; ""Chapter 5 Bio-Identities: Cloning the Recently Extinct""; ""5.1 Liminal Lives: The Biopolitics of De-extinction""; ""5.2 The Past Comes Alive: Ancient DNA as Time Travel"" ""5.2.1 No Longer Dead as a Dodo""""5.2.2 Everything Old is New Again""; ""5.3 Tasmanian Tiger Tales""; ""5.3.1 You don't know what you got until you lose it""; ""5.3.1.1 The Thylacine as Environmental Icon""; ""5.4 Spectacular Science""; ""5.5 Pickled Pups and Promises""; ""5.6 Reviving and Restoring""; ""5.7 See It Now, While It's Still Extinct""; ""References""; ""Chapter 6 Bio-Imaginaries: Bringing Back the Woolly Mammoth""; ""6.1 Entering the Hall of Extinct Monsters""; ""6.2 How to Resurrect a Woolly Mammoth""; ""6.2.1 Raising the Mammoth""; ""6.2.2 Pleistocene Dreams"" ""6.3 Engineering Life: Synthetic Biology""""6.4 In Search of Lost Worlds""; ""References"" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910298329803321 |
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Fletcher Amy Lynn
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| Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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