• Twitter
  • Facebook
Theme
Currency
Log-in | Register | My Basket : arrow

Your shopping basket is currently empty.

0 items - 0.00
Our Publications

The Pemberley Bookshop

Our Shop

Why not come and peruse our comprehensive range of natural history titles at our well stocked bookshop, where you can also receive our expert advice. Click here for details of our shop.

Life as We Made It: How 50,000 years of human innovation refined - and redefined - nature Life as We Made It: How 50,000 years of human innovation refined - and redefined - nature

by Shapiro, B.

Temporarily unavailable
  • Hardback £18.99
  • New Book Availability : Usually available within 5 day(s)
  • Add to wishlist
  • Catalogue No : 49211
  • ISBN : 9781786079404
  • Published : 2021
  • Cover : Hardback
  • Pages : 352
  • Paperback £10.99
  • New Book Availability : Usually available within 5 day(s)
  • Add to wishlist
  • Catalogue No : 49209
  • ISBN : 9780861544370
  • Published : OCT 2022
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 352

Our customers have not yet submitted a review for this title - click here to be the first to write a review

Description:

A Times Best Book of 2021

A leading biologist looks at how humans have meddled with evolution throughout history – and what we will do next.

From the very first dog to glowing fish and designer pigs – the human history of remaking nature.

Virus-free mosquitoes, resurrected dinosaurs, designer humans – such is the power of the science of tomorrow. But this idea that we have only recently begun to manipulate the natural world is false. We've been meddling with nature since the last ice age. It's just that we're getting better at it – a lot better.

Drawing on decades of research, Beth Shapiro reveals the surprisingly long history of human intervention in evolution through hunting, domesticating, polluting, hybridizing, conserving and genetically modifying life on Earth. Looking ahead to the future, she casts aside the scaremongering myths on the dangers of interference, and outlines the true risks and incredible opportunities that new biotechnologies will offer us in the years ahead. Not only do they present us with the chance to improve our own lives, but they increase the likelihood that we will continue to live in a rich and biologically diverse world.

Subscribe to our mailing list More details about our mailing list arrow