![]() ![]() Cloning a mammoth from frozen remains, for example, is unlikely to succeed, she writes, because it requires living cells efforts to introduce mammoth genes into existing elephant species are more plausible. In this lucid road map for the nascent discipline of “de-extinction,” Shapiro, an evolutionary biologist, examines not only how we can resurrect long-vanished species but also when we cannot or should not. But the hairy elephants could return within decades, brought back to life by recent breakthroughs in biotechnology. ![]() It has been several millennia since the last mammoths died out, after more than 100,000 years of dominating Arctic ecosystems. How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-extinction ![]()
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