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Mendel's Ark: Biotechnology and the Future of Extinction

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Preface

1. The Future of Extinction

1.1 Goodbye to the Baiji

1.2 Welcome to the Anthropocene

1.3 Wicked Problems and Socio-Technical Imaginaries

1.4 Taking Control of Nature's Realm

1.5 Telling Stories about Extinction

1.6 The Once and Future Baiji

References


2. A Political History of Extinction

2.1 The Biodiversity and Extinction Crisis

2.2 The Ladder of Life: The Question of Extinction in Classical Antiquity

2.3 The Order of Things: Classifying Nature in the Age of Enlightenment

2.4 The Second Alexandrian Tragedy: Extinction in the Progressive Era

2.5 Spaceship Earth: Modern Environmental Movements

2.6 Extinction in the Anthropocene

References


3. Bio-Inventories: The Digitization of Species

3.1 They Had to Count Them All: An Introduction to Bioinformatics

3.2 The Encyclopaedia of Life

3.3 A Barcode for Every Species

3.3.1 Transforming Ecology: From Species to Genes

3.3.2 The Taxonomic Impediment

3.3.3 Citizen Scientists and Democratic Natures

3.3.4 Digitizing Taxonomy as Big Science

3.4 Discussion

3.4.1 Biological Citizenship

3.4.2 Digital Natures

3.4.3 Scientific Frontiers and the New Modernity

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4. Bio-Interventions: Cloning Endangered Species

4.1 The Molecular Frontier: Genetics in the 20th Century

4.2 Life as Code: A New Metaphor

4.3 From Wistar Rats to Oncomice: Engineering Animals

4.4 Dolly and Polly: The Era of Animal Transgenics

4.5 Noah's Ark: Cloning on the Edge of Extinction

4.5.1 Moral Hazards

4.5.2 Technological Fixes

4.5.3 Cloning and Animal Ethics

4.6 Discussion

4.6.1 Preservation in a Petri Dish

4.6.2 Bio-hype and Biovalue

4.6.3 At Least We Will Still Have Tigers

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

5.2.1 Everything Old is New Again

5.3 So You're Extinct: Tales of the Tasmanian Tiger

5.3.1 You Don't Know What You've Got Until You Lose It

5.3.2 The Thylacine as Environmental Icon

5.4 The Thylacine Cloning Project

5.4.1 Bring 'Em Back Alive

5.4.2 Spectacular Science

5.4.3 Biovalue and the Vital Past

5.5 Discussion

5.5.1 The Tiger in the Room

5.5.2 Bringing Back the Bucardo

5.5.4 Reviving and Restoring


6. Bio-Imaginaries: Bringing Back the Woolly Mammoth

6.1. Pleistocene Dreams: The Woolly Mammoth as Icon

6.2 Genes in Deep Time

6.2.1 Sequencing Ancient Genomes

6.2.2 Drawing Boundaries around Ancient DNA

6.2.3 Paleogenomics

6.3 Mammoth Cloning

6.3.1 How to Resurrect a Woolly Mammoth

6.3.2 Science, the Endless Frontier

6.3.3 How Much is a Woolly Mammoth Worth?

6.3.4 Genome Hacking: Mammoth-ifying the Elephant

6.4 Discussion

6.4.1 Pleistocene Parks and Paleolithic Futures

6.4.3 Why Not the Neanderthals, Too?

References


7. Restoration to Resurrection: Extinction in the 21st Century

7.1 Escaping the Black Hole of Extinction

7.2 Rewilding

7.3 De-Extinction

7.4 Synthetic Biology

7.5 Anticipatory Animals and Pro


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789401777636
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer
  • Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Weight: 163 gr
  • ISBN-10: 9401777632
  • Publisher Date: 22 Sep 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 99
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Biotechnology and the Future of Extinction
  • Width: 156 mm


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