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050 00 $aQE721.2.E85$bH67 2009
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100 1 $aHorner, John R.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85269500
245 10 $aHow to build a dinosaur :$bextinction doesn't have to be forever /$cJack Horner and James Gorman.
260 $aNew York :$bDutton,$c[2009], ©2009.
300 $aviii, 246 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 219-228) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tHell Creek: Time, Space, and Digging to the Past -- $g2.$tIt's a Girl!: A Pregnancy Test for T-Rex -- $g3.$tMolecules Are Fossils Too: Biological Secrets in Ancient Bones -- $g4.$tDinosaurs Among Us Chickens and Other Cousins of T-Rex -- $g5.$tWhere Babies Come from: Ancestors in the Egg -- $g6.$tWag the Bird: The Shrinking Backbone -- $g7.$tReverse Evolution: Experimenting With Extinction -- $gAppendix.$tChickenosaurus Skeleton.
520 1 $a"Jurassic Park thrilled millions of people with its fictional story of re-creating dinosaurs by harvesting ancient DNA. Now, over a decade later, Jack Horner and his colleagues in molecular biology labs are poised to create a real dinosaur based on the latest breakthroughs - without using prehistoric DNA." "The project is based on new research in evolutionary developmental biology (or evo-devo) into how a few cells grow to create arms, legs, eyes, and brains all functioning together, and how changes in that growth can drive evolution. Jack Horner takes the science a step further in a plan to "reverse evolution" and reveals the awesome, even frightening power we are now acquiring to re-create the prehistoric past. The mystery ingredient in this recreation is the genetic code for building dinosaurs that lives on in modern birds, even chickens. So how do you build a dinosaur? One way is to start with a simple chicken egg, and biochemically nudge the embryo this way and that until what hatches has a tail, teeth, and forearms instead of wings. Behold: Chickenosaurus." "As Horner and scientists around the world pursue the fundamental questions about biology thrown up by this new potential, extremely valuable practical benefits are appearing on the horizon. For instance, the growth of the tail is tied into the growth of the spinal cord, and as we all know, spinal cord birth defects in humans can be a devastating family misfortune. Learning more about what starts and stops tail growth holds open the promise of solutions to some of the most heartbreaking human birth defects."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aEvolutionary paleobiology.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90005335
650 0 $aDinosaurs$xExtinction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001004499
700 1 $aGorman, James,$d1949-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79136307
852 00 $bglg$hQE721.2.E85$iH67 2009