ZOOLOGY 651 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Moral Hazard, Ancient Dna, Geochemistry
20 Nov 2016
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Does the last best hope for the world"s most magnificent creatures really lie in pools of liquid nitrogen? vials, frozen zoo. History reveals that, in its ups and downs, life is extremely resilient, but not infinitely so. When the world changes faster than species can adapt, many fall out. Many carefully preserved in seed banks after no living individual of those plants remain, the preserved seeds could potentially be germinated, resulting in a de-extinction. Might produce an organism with some combination of genetic traits of both the extinct and extant form. Resulting organism would be a novel life form, not the extinct species. Communicating conservation goals if extinction is no longer forever. De-extinction suggests a narrative in which extinction is just a temporary state of arrested animation rather than a. Week 12 readings complete annihilation of a species scientific ambiguity over scientific definitions can cause a great deal of trouble.
