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In 1981, Dian Fossey was sure they were going extinct.
You know, do you want extinct species back?
Do you want extinct species back?
Stewart Brand: Well, the earlier point is we interfered in a big way by making these animals go extinct, and many of them were keystone species, and we changed the whole ecosystem they were in by letting them go.
If you had asked me 10 years ago whether or not we would ever be able to sequence the genome of extinct animals, I would have told you, it's unlikely.
If you had asked whether or not we would actually be able to revive an extinct species, I would have said, pipe dream.
Like 99 percent of all the animals that have once lived, they go extinct, likely due to a warming climate and fast-encroaching dense forests that are migrating north, and also, as the late, great Paul Martin once put it, probably Pleistocene overkill, so the large game hunters that took them down.
With advances in ancient DNA technology, we can actually now start to begin to sequence the genomes of those other extinct mammoth forms that I mentioned, and I just wanted to talk about two of them, the woolly and the Columbian mammoth, both of which were living very close to each other during glacial peaks, so when the glaciers were massive in North America, the woollies were pushed into these subglacial ecotones, and came into contact with the relatives living to the south, and there they shared refugia, and a little bit more than the refugia, it turns out.
So this is not trivial, given the idea that we want to revive extinct species, because it turns out that an African and an Asian elephant can actually interbreed and have live young, and this has actually occurred by accident in a zoo in Chester, U.K., in 1978.
It was extinct.
And then we took the dead nucleus from the dead tissue of the extinct frog and we inserted those nuclei into that egg.
What we're trying to do is take a dead nucleus from an extinct species and put it into a completely different species and expect that to work.
We even DNA-tested some of these cells, and the DNA of the extinct frog is in those cells.
But it's a long way along the journey to producing, or bringing back, an extinct species.
All we know is, soon after the dingoes were brought in, thylacines were extinct in the Australian mainland, and after that they only survived in Tasmania.
Sometimes you might be able to put it back, but is that the safest way to make sure it never goes extinct again?
If it had not been illegal to keep these thylacines as pets then, would the thylacine be extinct now?
Could it be that getting animals close to us so that we value them, maybe they won't go extinct?
Now, if you didn't like either of those two high-tech options, it's important to remember that low-tech is suicide from a cosmic perspective, because if we don't go far beyond today's technology, the question isn't whether humanity is going to go extinct, merely whether we're going to get taken out by the next killer asteroid, supervolcano or some other problem that better technology could have solved.
But we're always shown evolution portrayed something like this, a monkey and a chimpanzee, some extinct humans, all on a forward and steady march to becoming us.
As life evolves, it also goes extinct.
Think of us all as young leaves on this ancient and gigantic tree of life, all of us connected by invisible branches not just to each other, but to our extinct relatives and our evolutionary ancestors.
And if we really are looking at areas of land of the sort of sizes I've been talking about becoming available, why not reintroduce some of our lost megafauna, or at least species closely related to those which have become extinct everywhere?
And I talk about the dodo, and how the dodo became extinct, and then I talk about Spinoza.
When something is extinct, you can't have it as your parent.
That's when the dinosaurs went extinct, that's when 75 percent of the animal and plant species went extinct, and that's when mammals overtook their ecological niche, and to anthropomorphize, biological evolution said, "Hmm, this neocortex is pretty good stuff," and it began to grow it.
I think that the book was never really the right format for nonlinear information, which is why we're seeing reference books becoming the first to be endangered or extinct.
The species almost went extinct.
Well, I hate to break it to you, but perception of reality goes extinct.
Those perceptions of reality go extinct.
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