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The Resurrection Quest

Curious Cases

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Willy Mammoth

There's lots of motivations for thinking about bringing back extinct species. For me, the most compelling arguments are not about species that have been extinct for a long time. I think if we could bring a T-Rex back to life, that's what people would be focusing on. We feel guilty because we understand that humans played some role in driving them to extinction. And so do we have some sort of moral need to bring them back? Maybe this is where this is coming from.

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