num_pages: 304
description: Ben Mezrich takes us on an exhilarating true adventure story from the icy terrain of Siberia to the cutting-edge genetic labs of Harvard University. A group of young scientists under the guidance of Dr. George Church the most brilliant geneticist of our time works to make fantasy reality by sequencing the DNA of a frozen woolly mammoth harvested from above the Arctic circle and splicing elements of that sequence into the DNA of a modern elephant. Will they be able to turn the hybrid cells into a functional embryo and bring the extinct creatures to life in our modern world?Along with Church and his team of Harvard scientists a world-famous conservationist and a genius Russian scientist plan to turn a tract of the Siberian tundra into Pleistocene Park populating the permafrost with ancient herbivores as a hedge against an environmental ticking time bomb.
language: English
title: Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive One of History's Most Iconic Extinct Creatures
publisher: Atria Books