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Life As We Made It : How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined--And Redefined--Nature by Beth Shapiro (2021, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBasic Books
ISBN-101541644182
ISBN-139781541644182
eBay Product ID (ePID)3050106622
Product Key Features
Book TitleLife As We Made It : How 50000 Years of Human Innovation Refined--And Redefined--Nature
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2021
TopicBiotechnology, Life Sciences / Molecular Biology, Life Sciences / Evolution, Chemistry / Industrial & Technical
GenreScience
AuthorBeth Shapiro
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight20 oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2021-009604
Reviews"A brilliant combination of science, natural history, and first-person experience, Life as We Made It shows how our species has been manipulating nature for nearly as long as we've been around. Anyone who wants to better understand the future of life - human and otherwise - should read this book." -- Jennifer Doudna, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, "Humans are a force of nature. This paradoxical thought is the glue that holds Life as We Made It together. But it is not the environment changing effects of human activity on land, sea and air that intrigue Beth Shapiro--or not directly. Instead, she looks at how people have altered living organisms themselves, exerting an evolutionary pressure on other species... In an age when 'technology' has become synonymous with the information kind, it is worth being reminded that other sorts are available. And with one of them people can, if they so choose, remake themselves." -- The Economist, "Shapiro's point, throughout the book, is that we've always meddled with nature; the answer is not to stop meddling, but to meddle better... With this clear-eyed account of its humanitarian potential, Shapiro has done the field a great service." -- Nature
SynopsisFrom the first dog to the first beefalo, from farming to CRISPR, the human history of remaking nature When the 2020 Nobel Prize was awarded to the inventors of CRISPR, the revolutionary gene-editing tool, it underlined our amazing and apparently novel powers to alter nature. But as biologist Beth Shapiro argues in Life as We Made It , this phenomenon isn't new. Humans have been reshaping the world around us for ages, from early dogs to modern bacteria modified to pump out insulin. Indeed, she claims, reshaping nature--resetting the course of evolution, ours and others'--is the essence of what our species does. In exploring our evolutionary and cultural history, Shapiro finds a course for the future. If we have always been changing nature to help us survive and thrive, then we need to avoid naive arguments about how we might destroy it with our meddling, and instead ask how we can meddle better. Brilliant and insightful, Life as We Made It is an essential book for the decades to come.
LC Classification NumberTP248.18.S46 2021
