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Series
Shadow series (Orson Scott Card) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bean flees to the stars with three of his children, the three who share the engineered genes that gave him both hyper-intelligence and a short, cruel physical life. The time dilation granted by the speed of their travel gives Earth's scientists generations to seek a cure, to no avail. In time, they are forgotten - a fading signal speaking of events lost to Earth's history. But the Delphikis are about to make a discovery that will let them save themselves,...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In southern Siberia resides Mavrik, the size of a sheepdog, who wags his tail, rolls on his back, and pants in anticipation of human attention. He’s as docile and playful as any lapdog. And yet he is a fox, the result of the most extraordinary breeding experiment ever conducted. More than a half century ago, a Soviet biologist named Dmitry Belyaev decided to gather up 130 foxes from Siberian fox farms and figure out just how long it would take to...
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