De-Extinction: Why We Should Bring Back The Woolly Mammoth

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De-Extinction is the process of creating an organism, which is either a member of, or resembles an extinct species, or breeding population of such organisms. Cloning is the most widely proposed method, although selective breeding has also been proposed. The article “The Case for De-Extinction: Why We Should Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth” by Stewart Brand would be a great article for the readers of The Shorthorn. Just knowing that it is possible to bring animals from the past is amazing. Who wouldn’t want to see a Woolly Mammoth walk on earth for the first time after so many years? The University of Texas at Arlington would definitely agree that this article about de-extinction would be interesting to read. The reality of bringing back species that have long since been extinct will be interesting to the readers of The Shorthorn because the idea of de-extinction has been popular in science fiction such as in the Jurassic Park series. Students should be aware of what might happen to the future if the reviving of past comes back to life. This article should be published in an article because the author is focused on an important concept, he discusses the advantages, and he considers the potential risk. …show more content…
He is saying that we will help bring back the extinct and help the De-Extinction so we can save the animals and help the world. Brand focuses on how genomes will be bring back the extinct. The only problem is that we do not know if the resurrected animal is really the extinct animal. They cannot be raised the same way they used to be. So they have to use a similar animal with almost the same lifestyle they had. They still don’t know how long it will take till the first successful extinct animal comes to