They stand in counterbalance to a famous mathematician and chaos theorist, Ian Malcolm, and a lawyer representing the investors, Donald Gennaro. To placate them, Hammond intends that Grant and Sattler act as fresh consultants. Recent events in the park have spooked Hammond's investors. Hammond proudly touts InGen's advances in genetic engineering and shows his guests through the island's vast array of automated systems. To control the population, all specimens on the island are lysine-deficient females.
Gaps in the genetic code have been filled in with reptilian, avian, or amphibian DNA. The animals have been recreated using damaged dinosaur DNA found in blood inside of gnats and ticks fossilized and preserved in amber.
Upon arrival, the preserve is revealed to be Jurassic Park, a theme park showcasing cloned dinosaurs. Paleontologist Alan Grant and his paleobotanist graduate student, Ellie Sattler, are abruptly whisked away by billionaire John Hammond - founder and chief executive officer of International Genetic Technologies, or InGen - for a weekend visit to a "biological preserve" he has established on a remote island off the coast of Costa Rica. One of the species, a strange, small, lizard-like creature with three toes (thought at the time to be a new species of basilisk lizard), is eventually identified as a Procompsognathus.
The narrative begins in August 1989 by slowly tying together a series of incidents involving strange animal attacks in Costa Rica and on fictional Isla Nublar, the main setting for the story.
In 1997, both novels were re-published as a single book titled Michael Crichton's Jurassic World, unrelated to the film of the same name. A sequel titled The Lost World, also written by Crichton, was published in 1995. A cautionary tale about genetic engineering, it presents the collapse of an amusement park showcasing genetically recreated dinosaurs to illustrate the mathematical concept of chaos theory and its real world implications. Jurassic Park is a 1990 science fiction novel written by Michael Crichton, divided into seven sections (iterations).