A Brand New Bird Free

Author: Tim Birkhead
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0465006655

A Brand New Bird: How Two Amateur Scientists Created The First Genetically Engineered Animal

Long before Dolly the Sheep or bioengineered corn, there was the Red Canary-the first organism to be manipulated by genetic technology, back in the 1920s. Download A Brand New Bird: How Two Amateur Scientists Created The First Genetically Engineered Animal from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. The effort to produce a red canary invoked all of the deep issues that troubled genetic engineering decades later: the nature of genes and how they work, the specter of eugenics, and the relative roles of nature and nurture in determining what an organism is. Behavioral ecologist Tim Birkhead describes how a sweet-voiced green bird discovered by Spanish explorers in the 1300s became a craze in Renaissance Europe, how breeders gradually turned its green plumage to yellow, and how a pair of German scientists used the first bit of gene technology in the 1920s to produce an almost-red canary. But Search and find a lot of engineering books in many category availabe for free download.

A Brand New Bird Free

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