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35: Don't DeExtinct the Dodo, Humans vs Computers, and Art Forgery
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Do You Have a Genome of a Pigeon?
The Nicobar pigeon is the closest species to the dodo. They got mitochondrial DNA initially extracted from the dodo, I guess it was bones. And that's how they found out that the Nicobar pigeon was its closest relative because they have really closely matching mitochondrial DNA and not their actual genomes. The thing about DNA is we don't fully understand it. But there are huge bits of parts of DNA which seemingly don't do anything that we don't understand. Yeah. It's like an even do it. You literally were just like with a recently deceased and well documented animal, we barely got anything to happen at all. And so then to be like, let's make it harder actually
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