Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive One of History's Most Iconic Extinct Creatures by Ben Mezrich

3.35 AVERAGE

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4.0
Fascinating! There is a bit of speculative fiction where the author imagines a time three years from now in which the science discussed in the rest of the book has successfully brought back woolly mammoths, but other than that it is a factual run down of the possibilities, what reintroduction of mammoths would mean to the tundra ecosystem (and the world), and a history of how we got to this point in DNA manipulation in the first place. I found the part about how herbivores effect the permafrost temp and general tundra ecosystem particularly interesting. Feels similar to the effect beavers have on the landscape.