Based in Phoenix, Arizona, Jason Altzman guides a performance-focused team of automotive and motorsports marketing professionals as principal of Aero Marketing Group. An avid reader, Jason Altzman enjoys the works of Ben Mezrich, who is known for books such as The 37th Parallel and The Accidental Billionaires.
Mezrich’s latest book, Woolly, continuously combines narrative nonfiction with the elements of a thriller in providing insight into efforts of young scientists at a Harvard University genetic labs to sequence DNA taken from a frozen woolly mammoth found in Siberia. Portions of the DNA sequence were spliced into the DNA of an elephant, with the aim of creating an embryo that could bring the woolly mammoth back from extinction.
The broader goal of the research is to create capacities for reintroducing species that have long gone extinct and help to reverse the negative effects of human activity on wildlife populations and genetic diversity. Mezrich's lengthy work combines the nail-biting saga of contemporary researchers with expositions on past history that vividly recreate the world the woolly mammoth once inhabited.
Mezrich’s latest book, Woolly, continuously combines narrative nonfiction with the elements of a thriller in providing insight into efforts of young scientists at a Harvard University genetic labs to sequence DNA taken from a frozen woolly mammoth found in Siberia. Portions of the DNA sequence were spliced into the DNA of an elephant, with the aim of creating an embryo that could bring the woolly mammoth back from extinction.
The broader goal of the research is to create capacities for reintroducing species that have long gone extinct and help to reverse the negative effects of human activity on wildlife populations and genetic diversity. Mezrich's lengthy work combines the nail-biting saga of contemporary researchers with expositions on past history that vividly recreate the world the woolly mammoth once inhabited.