Do you have an overall for or against view? Is there a central emotion that sort of grips you?īritt Wray: My overall emotion is not what guides my work. Sasha Chapin: One thing that struck me about this book is that, after I finished it, I knew a lot about de-extinction, but I wasn’t really sure what your personal opinion on it was. As Wray, who co-hosts a podcast on BBC called Tomorrow's World, takes you through this weird field, she explains basic genetic engineering, the truly intimidating genitalia of elephants, the history of pigeon hunting, and almost everything else. Brilliant men and women around the world are trying to bring back the passenger pigeon, the wooly mammoth, and the white rhino, for reasons that have to do both with saving the world and entertaining human whimsy. This is something that’s actually going on, albeit in a less contrived fashion than in Steven Spielberg’s movie. In this case, the topic is the science of de-extinction: the process of resurrecting endangered species, à la Jurassic Park. Britt Wray’s Rise of the Necrofauna(Greystone Books) is one of those whirlwind books that purports to be about one topic, but ends up taking you places you couldn’t have foreseen.
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