2023-04-17 11:50:58
This is a subject that is no longer quite science fiction but divides the scientific community: from the dodo to the woolly mammoth through the Tasmanian wolf, why want to revive extinct species? Wouldn’t it be better to protect the species that are now threatened with extinction and above all the insects?
Caressing the fur of a woolly mammoth, shivering in front of a dinosaur, admiring a Tasmanian tiger or observing a dodo: could these slightly crazy dreams one day no longer be science fiction? From the United States to South Africa via Denmark, scientists are trying to recreate extinct species in their laboratories. How ? With what technologies? What is the point of reviving species that have been extinct for hundreds or even thousands of years? Are these researchers playing sorcerer’s apprentices? How could these recreated animals be released into the wild without disrupting ecosystems?
With Nadir Alvarez evolutionary biologist and geneticist, chief curator since 2017 at the MHNG et Lionel Calvinpaleontologist and curator at the Natural History Museum of Geneva (Geology Paleontology) for the book Bring extinct species back to life? published by Editions Favre
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