Courage to Be Honest - On Stage with Ricky Gervais
The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins
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The Greatest Thing Ever
Can we bring back the mammoth? There is a serious possibility. The genome of the mammoth has been pretty much worked out, and so it doesn't seem totally impossible that you could... Now, what does that mean? Do you mean you synthesise something or you've put together bits of DNA...or the DNA exists and you've found it in the elephant and modified it? What does it mean we've got the thing that would make a mammoth if it was ... Well, because frozen mammoths died sufficiently recently,. They're frozen in the Arctic, so that there's plenty of tissue there. You can get plenty of DNA. I use that instant stuff, so it could use that as
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