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Bring back the woolly mammoth!

Hendrik Poinar · TED

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It’s the dream of kids all around the world to see giant beasts walk the Earth again. Could -- and should -- that dream be realized? Hendrik Poinar talks about the next big thing: the quest to engineer a creature that looks very much like our furry friend, the woolly mammoth. The first step, to sequence the woolly genome, is nearly complete. And it’s huge.

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDxDeExtinction
Speaker
Hendrik Poinar
Year
2013
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Biology, Society and politics
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
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