Cloning Wild Life: Zoos, Captivity, and the Future of Endangered Animals

by Carrie Friese

Book Overview

The natural world is marked by an ever-increasing loss of varied habitats, a growing number of species extinctions, and a full range of new kinds of dilemmas posed by global warming. At the same time, humans are also working to actively shape this natural world through contemporary bioscience and biotechnology. In Cloning Wild Life, Carrie Friese posits that cloned endangered animals in zoos sit at the apex of these two trends, as humans seek a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479836389
• ISBN13: 9781479836383
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"