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Resurrecting Extinct Species with Colossal's Ben Lamm

The Deep End by ODF

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The Vision of a Woolly Mammoth

In one of the pieces, you said that the vision is essentially that you will have a living, walking proxy of a woolly mammoth. So let's get to the, i'm glad is this. I'm really glad you said proxy, becauseit, it is a a proxy species that we're creating - which is a combination of an agion elephant in woolly mamt even though it'll look like a woolly man,. But it is genetically a combination. An asian elephant is already 99 point six % a mammoth genetically to day. And so it is the closest living philogenic relative on the family tree that’s related to the mammoths.

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