Caspar Henderson

Raiders of the lost Ark

Even if we could bring back the woolly mammoth (for one), where would it live?, asks Caspar Henderson. And do we really want it anyway?

The unentertaining fact is that resurrecting animals that died out 65 million years ago is likely to remain far beyond the bounds of possibility for a very long time to come. Getty Images.

  • How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-extinction

    Beth Shapiro

    Princeton, pp. 220

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