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The extinct passenger pigeon.

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Required Reading/Viewing

  1. Stewart Brand TED Talk (Feb 2013) "The dawn of de-extinction. Are you ready?" (20 min) [Brand2013]
  2. Michael Archer TED Talk (March 2013) "How we'll resurrect the gastric brooding frog, the Tasmanian tiger" (20 min) [Archer2013]
  3. Carl Zimmer. (April 2013) "Bringing Them Back to Life" National Geographic Magazine. Article Link [Zimmer2013]
    Also read "Your de-extinction questions answered" (required).
    There are a host of (optional) related articles and videos linked from the National Geographic De-extinction page.
  4. The Long Now Foundation: Revive & Restore [LongNow]
    See especially the links under "Candidates".

Additional Resources

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    Describes efforts to sequence the Neanderthal genome.

Svalbard Seed Bank Czar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/08/130805-genome-smithsonian-dna-sequencing-science/ https://www.croptrust.org/what-we-do/svalbard-global-seed-vault/

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