Great Medical Discoveries: Cloning

by Don Nardo

Book Overview

This up-to-date examination of the controversial topic of cloning concentrates mainly on the scientific and technical aspects of this form of reproduction, tracing its existence in Earth's primordial seas, to human mastery of plant cloning in the Stone Age, to the rise of mass-produced cloned food in the 20th century, to early attempts to clone animals, to the first cloned pets, and ends with speculation about the possibilities of human cloning in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560069279
• ISBN13: 9781560069270
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Lucent Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.4" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 4 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 7

Customer Reviews

Fascinating Book!!

I must say that after reading this book I realize there is a lot more to the topic of cloning than I thought there was. It's written for young people, but it's so thorough and well written that just about anybody will enjoy it. Be warned that the book doesn't take any particular side on this contraversial issue. It gives opinions from both sides and lets the reader decide for himself. I hartily recomend it to anybody interested in this subject. Let's face it, pretty soon somebody is bound to clone a person, and it's better to be well-informed about it when it happens than full of misconceptions, which this book helps clear up.