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Inside the Frozen Zoo That Could Bring Extinct Animals Back to Life
- jdavis703 10y agoDe-extinction is extremely difficult. Even if you're able to preserve DNA with 100℅ accuracy you still have the issue of raising an animal that we have little knowledge of how child rearing, eco system, etc works. I suppose for the more recent extinctions we have more information that could be used to de-extinct them and then rewild them. But something like this happening for species like Wooly Mammoths is probably a long way off.
- asciimo 10y ago> This is the crux of the anti-Frozen Zoo argument: Shouldn't we fix ourselves before we fix anything else? I'm glad the article addresses this point. We have a lot of work to do before we can do this responsibly, if we should do it at all.
- Falling3 10y agoVery much in that same vein, shouldn't we treat the existing animals of the world far better before bringing whole species back into it?
- e12e 10y agoBeautiful article. Those that liked this, will probably also enjoy what I consider maybe Douglas Adam's best book: "Last Chance to See": https://www.amazon.com/Last-Chance-See-Douglas-Adams/dp/0345371984 https://www.amazon.com/Last-Chance-See-Douglas-Adams/dp/0345... There's a also a companion BBC Radio series (which I haven't heard) and a later follow up by BBC TV, with Stephen Fry, which is pretty good.
- wazoox 10y agoLife is perpetual movement, evolution, adaptation. There is something profoundly disturbing about these projects of freezing elements of the biosphere we're busy destroying. According to some geneticists, it's a fool's errand.