![]() ![]() ![]() Unlike most sports books, Faster Higher Smarter doesn't want its readers to Be Like Mike, as in the famous Gatorade commercial about basketball legend Michael Jordan. Each chapter focuses on a different species, from the once ubiquitous and now extinct passenger pigeon to the endangered and maddeningly mysterious. O'Connor takes the reader beyond that simple premise into a thorny tangle of ethics, economics, politics, personalities, and, of course, science. In stories of sixteenth-century galleon excavations, panther-tracking in Florida swamps, ancient African rainforests, Neanderthal tool-making, and cryogenic DNA banks, O'Connor investigates the philosophical questions of an age in which we "play god" with earth's biodiversity.Įach chapter in this beautifully written book focuses on a unique species-from the charismatic northern white rhinoceros to the infamous passenger pigeon-and the people entwined in the animals' fates. A delightful new book on how science has improved athletic performance over the decades avoids that dilemma by shining the spotlight on the technology that fuels their exploits. In her book Resurrection Science, journalist M. It identifies the connections between climate change and conservation by exploring the theories behind species resurrection. Paradoxically, the more we intervene to save species, the less wild they often become. Rose Resurrection Science observes topics that are likely important to any veterinarian graduate. O'Connor explores the extreme measures scientists are taking to try and save them, from captive breeding and genetic management to de-extinction. In a world dominated by people and rapid climate change, species large and small are increasingly vulnerable to extinction. **A Christian Science Monitor Top Ten Book of September** ![]()
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