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Nathaniel Rich, Ryan Phelan, Ben Novak: Second Nature: Green Rabbits, Passenger Pigeons, Cloned Ferrets, and the Birth of a New Ecology

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Is There a Future for Precision Editing?

i loved that chapter for a number of reasons. The function of art is to expose areas life that we don't have the proper language to describe. And i suspect the same thing will be happening with precision editing. We see it as an extension of things conservation has already been doing, but we're bringing in new tools. Because we announced we wanted to do this before it was done, there's actually been like a wave of art and discussion and dialogue where the mascot is theextinction - which hasn't been reality yet.

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