Review
How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever by Jack Horner, James Gorman
He is the author of several books, including two previous books with Horner.. This incredible research is leading to discoveries and applications so profound theyre scary in the power they confer on humanity. James Gorman is deputy science editor of The New York Times and editor of its Science Times section. At McGill University, Hans Larsson is manipulating a chicken embryo to awaken the dinosaur within: starting by growing a tail and eventually prompting it to grow the forelimbs of a dinosaur. How to Build a Dinosaur is a tour of the hot rocky deserts and air-conditioned laboratories at the forefront of this scientific revolution.Jack Horner is regents professor of paleontology at Montana State University, curator of paleontology at the Museum of the Rockies, and probably the best-known paleontologist in the world. But what if it were possible to build, or grow, a real dinosaur, without finding ancient DNA? Jack Horner, the scientist who advised Steven Spielberg on Jurassic Park, and a pioneer in bringing paleontology into the twenty-first century, teams up with the editor of The New York Times,/I>s Science Times section to reveal exactly whats in store. These proteins show that T. rex and the modern chicken are kissing cousins. All of this is happening without changing a single gene. In movies, in novels, in comic strips, and on television, weve all seen dinosaursor at least somebodys educated guess of what they would look like. In the 1980s, Horner began using CAT scans to look inside fossilized dinosaur eggs, and he and his colleagues have been delving deeper ever since. A world-renowned paleontologist takes readers all over the globe to reveal a new science that trumps science fiction: how humans can re-create a dinosaur. At North Carolina State University, Mary Schweitzer has extracted fossil moleculesproteins that survived 68 million yearsfrom a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil excavated by Horner.