The Second Creation: Dolly and the Age of Biological Control by Ian Wilmut,
Keith Campbell and Colin Tudge, Farrar Straus & Giroux, $27, ISBN
0374141231
DESPITE its grandiose and somewhat misleading title, this is a thoughtful and
engaging account of a wonderful chapter in modern biology: the experiments that
resulted in the birth of Dolly, the sheep cloned from her mother’s cells.
Dolly has been the subject of a great deal of ink pressed to an even greater
quantity of paper. This narrative should, nevertheless, command our attention
because it was Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell who designed and carried out…
