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frozen animals, 26–27, International Union for Neanderthals, 86
31, 45, 51 Conservation of New Zealand, 37, 97
frozen tissues, 9, 22, 77 Nature (IUCN), 19 Nobel Prize in
fungi, 18, 65–67, 78 invasive species, 21, Physiology or
87, 95 Medicine, 34
genetic diversity, 69, 82, northern white
92, 94 Jurassic Park, 37 rhinoceros, 88–90
genetic engineering, nucleotides, 8, 37, 40, 44
7, 22, 41–43, 50, laws, conservation, 58,
65–67, 70, 86–87, 60 On the Origin of Species
89, 94 Endangered Species (Darwin), 14
geneticists, 8, 35–37, 41 Act, 60 Operation Migration,
genomes, 8, 36–44, Lacey Act, 60 71–72
62–65, 80, 82, 86 Migratory Bird Treaty ornithologists, 56, 63
Gilbert, Thomas, 40 Act, 60
Gill, Jacquelyn, 31, 83 Linnaeus, Carolus, 13 Pääbo, Svante, 86
global warming, 14, Lips, Karen, 79 paleogenetics, 36–37,
16–19, 21, 30, 32, 42, 62
49, 52–53, 95–97 mammoths paleontologists, 32–33,
goats. Seebucardo Columbian, 28 36, 75–76, 87
Goodall, Jane, 96 dwarf, 28–29 pandas, 93
Gwin, Peter, 95 frozen specimens, passenger pigeons, 17,
26–27, 31, 45, 51 22, 55–73, 77, 87
habitats, 17–18, 20–22, resurrection of, 25–37 killing of, 16, 60–62
50, 58, 60, 65, tusks, 28, 30–31 migrations of, 57
81–82, 95–97 woolly, 22, 24–31, 34, revival of, 62–73
loss of, 41–43, 69–70, 39–51, 62–63, 83 permafrost, 27, 30, 35,
70, 78, 85 maps, 28 52–53, 83
half-life, DNA, 37 marsupials, 79 Phelan, Ryan, 63
Hung, Chih-Ming, 68 mass extinctions, 14–15, Pimm, Stuart, 83–85
hunting, 4, 16, 20, 30, 50, 62 Pleistocene Park, 48,
54, 69, 70, 72, 80, migration, 57, 60, 65, 50, 52
83, 95 70–73 Pleistocene period, 28,
regulation of, 6, Miller, Webb, 40–42 48–50
58–60, 97 poachers, 83, 95
naming system, Poinar, Hendrik, 83
ice ages, 24, 28, 49 scientific, 13 Pokagon, Simon, 56
imprinting, baby birds, national parks and pollinators, 20–21
70–71 preserves, 6, 20–21, pollution, 18–19
insects, 20–21, 32, 96 48, 76 population bottlenecks,
International Crane natural selection, 12–14, 69, 92
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