Cover of The Human Experiment: Two Years and Twenty Minutes Inside Biosphere 2

The Human Experiment: Two Years and Twenty Minutes Inside Biosphere 2

Environmentalist Jane Poynter provides an account of what her life was like while living in Biosphere 2, detailing the scientific work and personal conflicts that occurred over her two-year stay in the artificial closed ecological system in Oracle, Arizona.

Subject
sciencebiographyhistory
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 384 pages

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