От заличаването до възкресението-изчезнало от Садиа Куреши
би трябвало да сте толкоз мъртви, колкото Додо, с цел да не забелязвате възходящото възприятие на неспокойствие към „ депонирането “. Scientists and private companies nurture dreams of using cutting-edge science, including genetic editing, to bring famously defunct species, or closely related hybrids, back to life.
Colossal Biosciences, a US-based genetics start-up that already has controversial projects aimed at resurrecting the dodo and Tasmanian tiger, recently announced that it was teaming up with film director Sir Peter Jackson and Indigenous communities in New Zealand to bring back the South Island giant moa, a giant flightless bird that was overhunted to extinction around 600 years ago.
These efforts — whether in pursuit of Jurassic Park-style entertainment or as penance for human-induced extermination — raise hackles for a host of reasons: they subtract money and eyeballs from attempts to conserve the nearly 10,000 species that still exist but are currently critically en...
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