Humanity has learned to use nature for its own purposes. We have domesticated animals to meet our needs and even altered their DNA: wolves have turned into dogs to help us hunt, wild birds have become chickens, laying eggs for our table. Organs for transplantation are grown in the bodies of pigs, pets are cloned, and animals with incredible coloration and appearance are bred. Through our actions, we have changed natural selection: today, not only the strongest survive — sometimes it is those organisms that humans have decided to keep alive.
We change representatives of the living nature to suit ourselves, yet our impact extends much further. By deforesting, polluting the oceans, heating the world, and altering the biosphere, we change the direction of evolution for all living things. But is it in the right direction?
The author introduces us to the main types of living organisms that have been created by humanity and tells about the researchers and nature defenders who are contemplating the construction of a "new ark".
"Whether we like it or not — we have to save the world we have captured." Helen Pilcher
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