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scientific fringes, but new advances in genetic engineering, especially the CRISPR-Cas9 revolution, have researchers believing that it’s time to start thinking seriously about which animals we might be able to bring back, and which ones would do the most good for the ecosystems they left behind. Indeed, earlier this month, ecologists at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), published guidelines for how to choose which species to revive if we want to do the most good for our planet's ecosystem
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/09/should-we-bring-extinct-species-back-dead
Assuming scientists can actually do this in the near future, should humanity bring back extinct animals like the dodo, woolly mammoth, passenger pigeon? Because we can and because it's interstng, perhaps awesome even? Or should we not, because ethics and evolution's course and they wouldn't be happy and all that?
Poll Results
Option | Votes |
Yes, bring 'em back | 18 |
No, leave it | 11 |
― the tightening is plateauing (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 16:07 (seven years ago) link
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