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minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·27 days agoI wouldn’t call it de-extinction unless they made something that is 100% identical genetically to the thing they are bringing back.
minus-squarehansolo@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·26 days agoAnd 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.
minus-squareTriflingToad@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·27 days agode-extinction ≈ decompilation, apparently
minus-squarejaviwhite@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·26 days agoDoes that make extinction a form of obfuscation?
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·26 days agoor like, actually looks like what we think they looked, rather than what was depicted in a fictional story
I wouldn’t call it de-extinction unless they made something that is 100% identical genetically to the thing they are bringing back.
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.
Aaand they do not have mtDNA.
de-extinction ≈ decompilation, apparently
Does that make extinction a form of obfuscation?
or like, actually looks like what we think they looked, rather than what was depicted in a fictional story