De-Extinction, Part One: How It Works, Kinda
Wherein we talk about what it means to 'De-Extinct' - pet dinosaurs? Probably not. Get your FREE (as in zero dollars) audio book: http://www.audible.com/brainscoop Facebook: http://www.facebook....
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Today we're gonna talk about de-extinction. De-extinction is the process of making extinct things not extinct anymore. There's a lot of buzz about it right now in the scientific community due to recent advancements in synthetic biology. Awesome! I get to ride a brontosaurus! Or do I? Are we really bringing back extinct animals? What is really happening here? There are various complicated reasons why these species would not be the same animals that walked the Earth hundreds or thousands of years ago. To de-extinct a species requires finding a specimen with viable DNA. For instance, a hundred-year-old passenger pigeon from a museum drawer or a four-thousand-year-old woolly mammoth found thawing in an iceberg in the Arctic. The reason these ani...
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Today we're gonna talk about de-extinction. De-extinction is the process of making extinct things not extinct anymore. There's a lot of buzz about it right now in the scientific community due to recent advancements in synthetic biology. Awesome! I get to ride a brontosaurus! Or do I? Are we really bringing back extinct animals? What is really happening here? There are various complicated reasons why these species would not be the same animals that walked the Earth hundreds or thousands of years ago. To de-extinct a species requires finding a specimen with viable DNA. For instance, a hundred-year-old passenger pigeon from a museum drawer or a four-thousand-year-old woolly mammoth found thawing in an iceberg in the Arctic. The reason these ani...
