The resulting book, «The Human Age,» is a splendidly prismatic tour of humans» techno - biological environmental
impacts and tinkering, taking readers from an
encounter with the Toronto Zoo's iPad - wielding orangutans («ginger - haired tree dancers,» in Ackerman's parlance) to the sterile drawers of DNA from vanishing
wildlife at the University of Nottingham's Frozen Ark project back to the Creative Machines Lab of roboticist Hod Lipson in her home town.