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THE QUEST FOR LIFE IN AMBER

THE QUEST FOR LIFE IN AMBER

THE QUEST FOR LIFE IN AMBER
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THE QUEST FOR LIFE IN AMBER

by Poinar, George; Poinar, Roberta

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ISBN 10
0201626608
ISBN 13
9780201626605
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Reading, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Helix Books/Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1994. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The dinosaurs of Jurassic Park are an imaginative leap from the ancient bee and its 40-million-year-old preserved DNA that George and Roberta Poinar discovered in 1991. Here they describe in detail the miracle and beauty of the preserved invertebrates they found, frozen forever in their everyday tasks - worker ants carrying food, bees with outstretched wings carrying pollen, flies mating - in the mummification process that tree sap provides. In passages that read more like an Indiana Jones screenplay than a story about scientific research, the Poinars describe how what began as a hobby grew into a semi obsession which ultimately led to a breakthrough scientific discovery. Along the way they encounter all manner of unusual characters, from threatening black marketeers and gun-toting guerrillas to talented scientists, and, of course, the luminously beautiful specimens captured in the still-life of amber. Fine,first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. [Not remainder-marked or price-clipped] NFS2

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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
THE QUEST FOR LIFE IN AMBER
Author
Poinar, George; Poinar, Roberta
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
Fine
Quantity Available
1
Edition
1st Edition 1st Printing
ISBN 10
0201626608
ISBN 13
9780201626605
Publisher
Helix Books/Addison-Wesley Publishing Company
Place of Publication
Reading, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date Published
1994
Size
8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
Keywords
DNA FOSSILS AMBER NATURE SCIENCE Nature
Product_type
2

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