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No, this theory comes from an expert on barnacles and worms and pigeon breeding, and you know who I mean: Charles Darwin.
But as you can see, the pigeon, or a chicken or anything else, another bird, has kind of a weird-looking hand, because the hand is a wing.
And so perhaps once they cleaned up the pigeon droppings, get the disk kind of operational again, normal operations would resume.
So this is a classic con called the pigeon drop, and I was the pigeon.
We didn't really realize that until 1914, when the last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, died at the Cincinnati zoo.
So he and Ryan organized and hosted a meeting at the Wyss Institute in Harvard bringing together specialists on passenger pigeons, conservation ornithologists, bioethicists, and fortunately passenger pigeon DNA had already been sequenced by a molecular biologist named Beth Shapiro.
The passenger pigeon has 1.3 billion base pairs in its genome.
Okay, the closest living relative of the passenger pigeon is the band-tailed pigeon.
Genetically, the band-tailed pigeon already is mostly living passenger pigeon.
There's just some bits that are band-tailed pigeon.
If you replace those bits with passenger pigeon bits, you've got the extinct bird back, cooing at you.
So there's genes for the short tail in the band-tailed pigeon, genes for the long tail in the passenger pigeon, and so on with the red eye, peach-colored breast, flocking, and so on.
First off, Ryan and I decided to create a nonprofit called Revive and Restore that would push de-extinction generally and try to have it go in a responsible way, and we would push ahead with the passenger pigeon.
Another direct result was a young grad student named Ben Novak, who had been obsessed with passenger pigeons since he was 14 and had also learned how to work with ancient DNA, himself sequenced the passenger pigeon, using money from his family and friends.
Now, this photograph I took of him last year at the Smithsonian, he's looking down at Martha, the last passenger pigeon alive.
The sequence of events: he'll put together the genomes of the band-tailed pigeon and the passenger pigeon, he'll take the techniques of George Church and get passenger pigeon DNA, the techniques of Robert Lanza and Michael McGrew, get that DNA into chicken gonads, and out of the chicken gonads get passenger pigeon eggs, squabs, and now you're getting a population of passenger pigeons.
It does raise the question of, they're not going to have passenger pigeon parents to teach them how to be a passenger pigeon.
We're also going to push ahead with the passenger pigeon.
They're going to work on the genomes of the passenger pigeon and the band-tailed pigeon.
As that data matures, they'll send it to George Church, who will work his magic, get passenger pigeon DNA out of that.
We'll get help from Bob Lanza and Mike McGrew to get that into germ plasm that can go into chickens that can produce passenger pigeon squabs that can be raised by band-tailed pigeon parents, and then from then on, it's passenger pigeons all the way, maybe for the next six million years.
If it was a homing pigeon, it would be called "Homer's Odyssey."
It's a pigeon sitting on top of a church.
Goes off during the day and does normal pigeon stuff.
Comes back, the whole place is covered with scaffolding and green netting and there's no way this pigeon can get home.
So it's a homeless pigeon now and it's going to have to find another place to live, and that allows me to go through my catalog of favorite things, and we start with the tall ones and so on.
And I forgot to mention this: whenever he lost a pigeon, he would take that pigeon out beyond the walls of the city.
And the pigeon is flying down above the Appian Way here.
If you see the red line, you are seeing the trail of the pigeon; if you don't see the red line, you are the pigeon.
This pigeon does something that most homing pigeons do not do: it takes the scenic route, (Laughter) which was a device that I felt was necessary to actually extend this book beyond about four pages.
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