Thursday, April 23, 2015

De-extinction!

Professor Beth Shapiro of UCSC seems to have her heart in the right place, but c'mon, don't we all want to see woolly mammoths roaming Canada again, asap?
... elephants are highly social creatures and there is no reason to suspect that mammoths were not. One mammoth would be necessarily alone in the world. It could not be released into the freedom of the Arctic until there were many of them. Until we can make many mammoths without using elephants, to my mind it is ethically unsound.

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