Mammoth by Richard Stone, Perseus, $26, ISBN 0738202819
THE mammoth was the first animal to be proven extinct. Will cloning
technology ever reverse that brute absence? Journalist Richard Stone thinks it
will. In the very last sentence of this entertaining book he boldly declares:
“Whether it is five years, five decades or five centuries from now, woolly
mammoths will once again walk the Earth.”
Stone briskly reviews the rise and fall of the great beasts, including a look
at the competing theories about their demise, neatly labelled overkill,
over-chill and hyperdisease. At the heart of his story are the adventures…
