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Given the rapid advances in genetic technologies it's been speculated that everything from woolly mammoths, to passenger pigeons, to our own close cousins the Neanderthals could soon walk the earth once more.
But if we can recreate extinct species in the lab do we devalue efforts to maintain existing populations clinging on at the brink of annihilation? And even if they can be physically brought back to life, can we recreate the environment and culture those animals evolved to fit over millions of years?
Journalist and author Maura O'Connor has plumbed those questions in her latest book, Resurrection Science: Conservation, De-Extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild Things.
