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This sounds more like dog breeding with elephants and gene editing than Jurassic Park. They are trying to make a cold weather adapted elephant
by ajaimk 5y ago
This sounds more like dog breeding with elephants and gene editing than Jurassic Park.
They are trying to make a cold weather adapted elephant
- mabbo 5y agoI suppose that begins to ask the question of what it means to be a wooly mammoth. If it fills the ecological niche of an <X>, and it looks like and has many of the same genes as an <X>, is it not an <X>? There's a bit of sci-fi fun in Neal Stephenson's wonderful "Seveneves"[0] where people are trying to re-populate the earth with animals after a planet-wide extinction event. They originally tried to make exactly the same wolves and lynx and rabbits and so on, but eventually realized they could just make "big pack dog animal" and "stalking cat animal" to fill the niches and let evolution do the fine tuning for them. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seveneves https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seveneves