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...least for the purpose of this new techno-thriller, his best by far since The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton accepts the charge that genetic research these days is a headlong, unregulated profit-and-glory grab by microbiologists with more skill than wisdom. Suppose, says Crichton, that a respectable paleozoologist (call him Alan Grant) begins to get increasingly detailed queries from a secretive corporate donor about what infant dinosaurs ate. Grant sends in his best guess. More questions follow, and they have a ring of urgency. What is this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dino DNA | 11/12/1990 | See Source »

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