A world-renowned paleontologist reveals groundbreaking science that trumps science fiction: how to grow a living dinosaur
Over a decade after Jurassic Park, Jack Horner and his colleagues in molecular biology labs are in the process of building the technology to create a real dinosaur.
Based on new research in evolutionary developmental biology on how a few select cells grow to create arms, legs, eyes, and brains that function together, Jack Horner takes the science a step further in a plan to "reverse evolution" and reveals the awesome, even frightening, power being acquired to recreate the prehistoric past. The key is the dinosaur's genetic code that lives on in modern birds- even chickens. From cutting-edge biology labs to field digs underneath the Montana sun, How to Build a Dinosaur explains and enlightens an awesome new science.
How to Build a Dinosaur
Introduction
1. Hell Creek
Time, Space, and Digging to the Past
2. It's A Girl!
A Pregnancy Test for T. Rex
3. Molecules Are Fossils Too
Biological Secrets in Ancient Bones
4. Dinosaurs Among Us
Chickens and Other Cousins of T. Rex
5. Where Babies Come From
Ancestors in the Egg
6. Wag The Bird
The Shrinking Backbone
7. Reverse Evolution
Experimenting with Extinction
Appendix: Chickenosaurus Skeleton
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
