A mammoth task: How do we decide which species to resurrect?
Tuesday, May 16, 2017 - 09:02
in Biology & Nature
The resurrection of vanished species -- through cutting-edge technologies such as gene-editing -- should be targeted towards recently extinct species rather than ancient ones, according to a conservation biologist. He suggests that long-gone species such as the woolly mammoth would not be the best focus for de-extinction efforts.