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The Quest For Life In Amber: The Discovery Of Fossil Dna (Helix books) - Hardcover

Poinar, George; Poinar, Roberta

 
9780201626605: The Quest For Life In Amber: The Discovery Of Fossil Dna (Helix books)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0201626608 ISBN 13: 9780201626605
Verlag: Basic Books, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

The dinosaurs of "Jurassic Park" are an imaginative leap from the ancient bee and its 40-million-year-old preserved DNA that George and Roberta Poinar discovered in 1991. Here they describe in detail the miracle and beauty of the preserved invertebrates they found, frozen forever in their everyday tasks - worker ants carrying food, bees with outstretched wings carrying pollen, flies mating - in the mummification process that tree sap provides. In passages that read more like an Indiana Jones screenplay than a story about scientific research, the Poinars describe how what began as a hobby grew into a semi obsession which ultimately led to a breakthrough scientific discovery. Along the way they encounter all manner of unusual characters, from threatening black marketeers and gun-toting guerrillas to talented scientists, and, of course, the luminously beautiful specimens captured in the still-life of amber.

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Verlag
Basic Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1994
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0201626608
ISBN 13 
9780201626605
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
219
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