Reddit reviews How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever
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This book was written by one of the paleontologists who consulted for the Jurassic Park films. He was one of the major reasons why they kept updating the appearance and behaviours of the dinos. The book explains that they're looking at using protein signals during embryo development, rather than cloning from DNA, to create atavistic traits in chicken/turkey embryos they will one day be able to manipulate the development to form a dinosaur. They would look identical to their gene-sake, but would still feed off a chicken's diet and taste like poultry if you were to eat one. Totally worth a read.
Birds are descended from dinosaurs, there's no "supposedly" about it.
Some "dinosaur" genes are still kicking around in birds. Some birds still have clawed hands as chicks, and fiddling around in labs with chicken embryos can make them grow vestigial teeth (though this is lethal to the embryo). And we still have cassowaries, which are pretty much emus that want to be velociraptors.
I really doubt that it's possible to reverse-engineer a theropod, though-- birds have been doing their own thing for a very long time, and a lot of their genes have been lost or modified-- but Jack Horner disagrees. You might be interested in picking up his book.
Any specific Science books?
I could recommend "How to Build a Dinosaur" by Jack Horner
Or "Greatest Show on Earth" by Dawkins.
but neither of those make a difference if that's not the sciencey genres you were looking for.
This isn't representative of the last five books I've read though, since I try to read books from the public library and my university's library. Also, I bought a cookbook and a book on algorithms after the Stieg Larsson book, but I figured we weren't including those kinds of books.