Nature Remade: Engineering Life, Envisioning Worlds

An exploration of humanity's attempts to control, engineer, and remake the future.   Every few months, we read a new headline describing researchers' attempts to "engineer" the natural world.

One recent example is the announcement of the birth of two human babies, whose genes have been "edited" using a gene-modification tool known as CRISPR.

While the very idea of manipulating human development is shocking, it's only the most recent development in a line of engineering endeavors that include cloud-seeding, ocean-fertilization, and animal cloning.

Historians Luis Campos, Michael Dietrich, and Tiago Saraiva along with biologist Christian Young have curated the essays in this volume, which is the first to explore the history of biological engineering from the gene to the environment Through the book's weaving of philosophical, historical, and scientific perspectives, readers gain insights into some of engineering's most famous cases and, in turn, find themselves imagining the future of nature as humanity attempts to remake it.