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Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology[a] or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossils to classify organisms and study their interactions with each other and their environments (their /c/paleoecology. Read more...

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

“As it turns out the woolly mammoth and Asian elephant are 99.6% gnomically similar,” said James.

That is still further apart genetically than humans and the other two chimp species, so it is still a massive gap to bridge.

Asian elephants are also endangered, wouldn't it be better to ensure their survival than to spend money on this boondoggle?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is anyone proposing both?

This feels like a publicity stunt at best. Why de-extinct something at all, especially something with no current ecological niche?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Not too mention, de-extincting something that is from a much colder point of history while we are heating up the planet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I have to admit that "gnomical" does not make me think of genomes.