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Author:   Amy Lynn Fletcher
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 0.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.766kg
ISBN:  

9789401777636

ISBN 10:   9401777632
Pages:   99
Publication Date:   22 September 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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 2 A Political History of Extinction 2.1 From Eden to Extinction. . . and Back Again? 2.2 Fossils and Frontiers: Debating ExtinctionDuring 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 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 Encyclopaedia of Life 3.4 A Barcode for Every Species 3.5 Digital Natures References . 4Bio-Interventions: Cloning Endangered Species as Wildlife Conservation 4.1 Is Nature Over? 4.2 The Molecular Frontier: Biotechnology and Life as Code 4.3 FromWistar 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 .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 5.3 Tasmanian Tiger Tales 5.4 Spectacular Science 5.5 Pickled Pups and Promises 5.6 Reviving and Restoring5.7 See It Now, While It’s Still Extinct References 6 Bio-Imaginaries: Bringing Back the Woolly Mammoth 6.1 Entering the Hall of Extinct Monsters 6.2 How to Resurrect a Woolly Mammoth 6.3 Engineering Life: Synthetic Biology 6.4 In Search of Lost Worlds References

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“This book looks at the impacts of modern molecular techniques on biodiversity and extinction. … The information presented is clear and concise, providing relevant examples for the issues at hand. … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above in biology, ecology, and biodiversity.” (K. R. Thompson, Choice, Vol. 52 (8), April, 2015)

This book looks at the impacts of modern molecular techniques on biodiversity and extinction. ... The information presented is clear and concise, providing relevant examples for the issues at hand. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above in biology, ecology, and biodiversity. (K. R. Thompson, Choice, Vol. 52 (8), April, 2015)

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