17 October 2013 - de-extinction 3
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Are you against bringing back extinct animals? Then bring back the
passenger pigeon. The bird’s survival strategy was to flock in
overwhelmingly vast numbers. The first time that a city gets painted
end to end with passenger pigeon droppings, de-extinction will go extinct.
clue:
Later this century we may be able to clone from DNA recently extinct
species that have close living relatives. George Church and others are
working on it for the passenger pigeon.
give me a clue so sweet and true
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