Jurassic Ark

摘要

Hendrik poinar had no idea the bizarre turn his day was about to take. Perched on a leather sofa in a downtown Toronto office, his host, a wealthy businessman, uncorked a $7,000 bottle of wine and outlined the multimillion-dollar offer: leave behind his research position at McMaster University's Ancient DNA Centre in Ontario and work full time to bring the extinct woolly mammoth back to life. The businessman went on to describe a grand vision - a "Pleistocene Park" housed on 150 acres north of Toronto, where visitors would pay to see the herbivorous beasts. Throughout the three-hour lunch, he peppered Poinar with questions about the risks and feasibility of such an endeavor, trying to feel out how much skin Poinar was willing to put in the game.