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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I wouldn't call it de-extinction unless they made something that is 100% identical genetically to the thing they are bringing back.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And they don't have 100% of the dire wolf DNA sequenced, nor do they have DNA of the dire wolf's extinct ancestor between it and Canis lupus. It's a grey wolf with genes from a dire wolf added in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Aaand they do not have mtDNA.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

or like, actually looks like what we think they looked, rather than what was depicted in a fictional story

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

de-extinction ≈ decompilation, apparently

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Does that make extinction a form of obfuscation?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

extinction is when the great library burns down.