On Mon, 5 Jul 2010, James Farlow wrote:
Does anybody have the citation for a rather clever little SF story
that anticipated Crichton's _Jurassic Park_ in having a dinosaur
reconstructed from DNA? The story was called "Paleontology: an
Experimental Science", or something like that. It was written as a
series of GSA abstracts, and part of the fun was that each successive
abstract had one fewer author, due to "lab accidents" with the
resurrected dinosaur.
http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/pseudosc/atmoviedna.htm
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There's a truly delightful story in the August, 1974 issue of Analog
science fiction magazine called Paleontology: An Experimental Science
by Robert R. Olsen. The author seems to be using a pseudonym but is
clearly intimately familiar with geology. The story contains so many
elements that occur in the two Jurassic Park films that I really
wonder if there's a connection. The story even ends with the
reconstructed T-Rex getting loose in San Diego!
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