“You should know what caused that species to go extinct in the first place, so that you don't bring something back that becomes the first species to be re-extinct”
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Dr. Beth Shapiro
Huberman Lab ·
“Technical, these are the easiest... the oldest DNA recovered from a mammoth bone dates to around one to two million years ago”
Dr. Beth Shapiro · Huberman Lab · Bringing Extinct Species Back to Life | Dr. Beth Shapiro
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select candidate species for de-extinction by first checking DNA recoverability (must be ≤~2 million years old and from cold, permafrost environments)
1-2 million years
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