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010      2021009604 
020    9781541644182|q(hardcover) 
020    1541644182|q(hardcover) 
020    |z9781541644151|q(ebook) 
035    (OCoLC)1237353083 
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049    CKEA 
050 00 TP248.18|b.S46 2021 
082 00 660.609|223 
100 1  Shapiro, Beth Alison,|eauthor. 
245 10 Life as we made it :|bhow 50,000 years of human innovation
       refined--and redefined--nature /|cBeth Shapiro. 
250    First edition. 
263    2110 
264  1 New York :|bBasic Books,|c2021. 
300    vii, 340 pages ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Prologue: Providence -- Bone mining -- Origin story -- 
       Blitzkrieg -- Lactase persistence -- Lake cow bacon -- 
       Polled -- Intended consequences -- Turkish delight. 
520    "Humans seem to be destroying nature with incessant 
       fiddling. We can use viruses to insert genes for pesticide
       resistance into plants, or to make the flesh of goldfish 
       glow. We can turn bacteria into factories for millions of 
       molecules, from vitamin A and insulin to diesel fuel. And 
       this year's Nobel Prize went to the inventors of tool 
       called CRISPR, which lets us edit genomes almost as easily
       as we can edit the text in a computer document. The 
       potential for harm can seem both enormous and inevitable. 
       In Life as We Made It, evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro
       argues that our fears of new technologies aren't just 
       mistaken, but they miss the big picture about human 
       history: we've been remaking nature for as long as we've 
       been around. As Shapiro shows, the molecular tools of 
       biotechnology are just the latest in a long line of 
       innovations stretching back to the extra food and warm 
       fires that first brought wolves into the human fold, 
       turning them into devoted dogs. Perhaps more importantly, 
       Shapiro offers a new understanding of the evolution of our
       species and those that surround us. We might think of 
       evolution as a process bigger than humans (and everything 
       else). To the contrary, Shapiro argues that we have always
       been active participants in it, driving it both 
       inadvertently and intentionally with our remarkable 
       capacity for technological innovation. Shapiro shows that 
       with each innovation and every plant and animal we touched,
       we not only shaped our own diets, genes, and social 
       structures but we reset the course of evolution, both 
       theirs and ours. Indeed, although we think of only modern 
       technology as capable of gene editing, she shows that even
       the first stone tools could edit DNA, simply by changing 
       the world in which all life lives. Recasting the history 
       of biology and technology alike, Life as We Made It shows 
       that the history of our species is essentially and 
       inevitably a story of us meddling with nature. And that 
       ultimately, our species' fate depends on how we do it in 
       the future"--|cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Biotechnology|xHistory. 
650  0 Biotechnology|xMoral and ethical aspects. 
650  0 Nature|xEffect of human beings on. 
650  7 SCIENCE / Chemistry / Industrial & Technical.|2bisacsh 
650  7 Biotechnology.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00832729 
650  7 Biotechnology|xMoral and ethical aspects.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst00832760 
650  7 Nature|xEffect of human beings on.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst01034564 
655  7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 
994    C0|bCKE