What Jack Horner is proposing to
do is certainly not unreasonable. The
fact is that aspects of DNA expression no longer advantageous are never lost so
much as simply turned off. Thus turning
those aspects back on is a reasonable proposition. It is easier if one sort of knows were to
look or are in possession of even damaged DNA, but not on the face of it an
impossibility.
Rather obviously, restoring the mammoth
and the mastodon will go a lot easier if we simply identify the actual
variations from the elephant and make appropriate adjustments. This should be possible with the frozen DNA
conveniently available.
I have already posted that our
aliens may well be humanity with its DNA upgraded to optimize necessary
features. That means it is possible for
us to learn and to make good choices.
This means that a good place to start will be animal models.
We may see the full restoration
of every extinct species before we are finished. I would really like to see a live Auroch.
Renowned paleontologist Jack Horner has spent his career trying to
reconstruct a dinosaur. He's found fossils with extraordinarily well-preserved
blood vessels and soft tissues, but never intact DNA. So, in a new approach,
he's taking living descendants of the dinosaur (chickens) and genetically
engineering them to reactivate ancestral traits — including teeth, tails, and
even hands — to make a "Chickenosaurus".
About Jack Horner
Jack Horner and his dig teams have discovered the first evidence of
parental care in dinosaurs, extensive nesting grounds, evidence of dinosaur
herds, and the world’s first dinosaur embryos. He's…
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