The resurrection quest
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The Big Ambition to Bring Back Extinct Species
There's lots of motivations for thinking about bringing back extinct species. For me the most compelling arguments are about developing technologies that will help us to help species that are perhaps still alive but on the edge of becoming extinct. If we can use these same technologies to engineer traits into these species that help them to keep up, I think would be an enormous benefit for conservation. It just seems like a Jurassic Park type idea and that didn't work out very well.
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