Describes the history of genetics and biotechnology, and discusses their uses in the future, including growing human organs for transplants and re-creating the dinosaurs.

Examines the current and future uses of genetic engineering, such as creating insulin for diabetics and increasing the food supply to feed the hungry.

This interdisciplinary reader offers a fascinating exploration of the intersection of biopolitics and utopia by employing a range of theoretical approaches. Each essay provides a unique application of the two concepts to topics spanning the social sciences and humanities.

Examines the discovery of fossilized dinosaur eggs by a group of scientists in Argentina.

Takes a look at the Neandertals and the process by which information about prehistoric peoples is gathered and analyzed.

Everyone dies . . . but what happens inside the human body when death occurs? What body systems are key for holding on to life? And what value does studying death have for those of us still living? Explore all of the answers with a forensic scientist who takes a look at the body’s interconnected cellular systems and the links between life and death.

Explores the lives of parasites, very small creatures that move from host to the next and their effect on the hosts.