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35: Don't DeExtinct the Dodo, Humans vs Computers, and Art Forgery

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Dodos Are Different From the Examples I Just Talked About

Frozen banks keep loads of DNA samples from a variety of species for research. They don't have any complete DNA for Dodos, do they? They'd have to reconstruct it themselves. We've had the same issue with bringing back other species like woolly mammoths and silicine. Believe that we can use DNA from closely related species and tweak it essentially to make it more like the target species DNA.

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