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So this is a form of synthetic hybridization of the genome of an extinct
species
with the genome of its closest living relative.
There's three of them who are not just re-creating ancient species, they're recreating extinct ecosystems in northern Siberia, in the Netherlands, and in Hawaii.
At the San Diego zoo, his frozen zoo has collected the tissues from over 1,000
species
over the last 35 years.
They're excited about all this, but they're also concerned that it might be competitive with the extremely important efforts to protect endangered
species
that are still alive, that haven't gone extinct yet.
But they're about to create what they call a Green List, and the Green List will have
species
that are doing fine, thank you,
species
that were endangered, like the bald eagle, but they're much better off now, thanks to everybody's good work, and protected areas around the world that are very, very well managed.
And they see reviving extinct
species
as the kind of good news you might be able to build on.
Captive breeding will be a major part of bringing back these
species.
You know, do you want extinct
species
back?
Do you want extinct
species
back?
Most of that we'll do by expanding and protecting wildlands, by expanding and protecting the populations of endangered
species.
But some
species
that we killed off totally we could consider bringing back to a world that misses them.
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.
They're actually closer than any
species
we've observed.
It's a rare picture because there are 10,000
species
of birds and only 300 possess a penis.
Yes, I will come destroy the computer and defend my
species.
The turkey vulture that you see here is super cool, because it's one of the few bird
species
that can actually smell.
I lost my faith in our
species.
We started to plant hundreds of thousands of trees, only local species, only native species, where we built an ecosystem identical to the one that was destroyed, and the life started to come back in an incredible way.
I told you in the beginning that it was necessary for us to plant about 2.5 million trees of about 200 different
species
in order to rebuild the ecosystem.
And some effective altruists think it's very important to make sure that our
species
survives at all.
If you had asked whether or not we would actually be able to revive an extinct species, I would have said, pipe dream.
So the first large mammoth that appears on the scene is meridionalis, which was standing four meters tall weighing about 10 tons, and was a woodland-adapted
species
and spread from Western Europe clear across Central Asia, across the Bering land bridge and into parts of North America.
And then, again, as climate changed as it always does, and new habitats opened up, we had the arrival of a steppe-adapted
species
called trogontherii in Central Asia pushing meridionalis out into Western Europe.
And the open grassland savannas of North America opened up, leading to the Columbian mammoth, a large, hairless
species
in North America.
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.
And I believe that in the same way that we need
species
diversity to ensure that the planet can go on, so we need this diversity of affection and diversity of family in order to strengthen the ecosphere of kindness.
Now, Atlantic spotted dolphins are a really nice
species
to work with for a couple of reasons.
And the two
species
actually form temporary alliances when they're chasing sharks away.
Now, scientists have used keyboard interfaces to try to bridge the gap with
species
including chimpanzees and dolphins.
Now it may be that all our mobile technology will actually be the same technology that helps us communicate with another
species
down the road.
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