Would it be cool to see woolly mammoth alive one day? Disappeared species have always
fascinated the human mind. A new discussion of using genomic technologies to reverse …

Wild animals are objects of fascination and concern. Efforts are made all over the world to
protect wild animals–especially the ones in danger of losing their habitats or their life–and …

Does extinction have to be forever? As the global extinction crisis accelerates,
conservationists and policy-makers increasingly use advanced biotechnologies such as …

In 2008, researchers affiliated with the Mammoth Genome Project at Pennsylvania State
University announced that they had successfully sequenced about 70 per cent of the …

2 Introduction the Mammoth, as if it still existed? I ask in return, why I should omit it, as if it did
not exist? Such is the economy of nature, that no instance can be produced of her having …

This book is about the philosophy of de-extinction. To make an extinct species 'de-extinct'is
to resurrect it by creating new organisms of the same, or similar, appearance and genetics …

Abstract The title of Beth Shapiro's 'How to Clone a Mammoth'contains an implicature: it
suggests that it is indeed possible to clone a mammoth, to bring extinct species back from …

There now appears to be a plausible pathway for reviving species that have been extinct for
several decades, centuries, or even millennia. I conducted an ethical analysis of de …

Is a passenger-pigeon-like bird that has come into existence through de-extinction
procedures an authentic passenger-pigeon? A similar question can be asked about all …

The natural world is marked by an ever-increasing loss of varied habitats, a growing number
of species extinctions, and a full range of new kinds of dilemmas posed by global warming …