Resurrecting extinct species : ethics and authenticity /: ethics and authenticity. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Douglas Ian Campbell, Patrick Michael Whittle.
• Authors: Campbell, Douglas Ian; Whittle, Patrick Michael
• Contents: Chapter 1. Wildlife Conservation in a Brave New World.- Chapter 2. Backbreeding: From Cow to Auroch.- Chapter 3: From Elephant to Mammoth by Coning and Genetic Engineering.- Chapter 4. Bringing back birds: passenger pigeons and huia.- Chapter 5. Resurrecting Neanderthals: De-extinction at the ethical limit.- Chapter 6. Mammoth or pseudo-mammoth? The authenticity question.- Chapter 7. Arguments For and Against De-extinction.- Chapter 8. Why, Which, When, and How: the ethics of de-extinction.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 174.957; Bioethics; Extinct animals; Extinction (Biology); Animal biotechnology -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319695785
• Related ISBNs: 9783319695778
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