Nicholas Wade

December 4, 2008 Nailing
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 * book: "Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors"


 * he can use DNA to grow a woolly mammoth
 * Stephen gets those spam emails all the time


 * reconstructing these creatures is all Stephen dreams about


 * he brought a tooth


 * new DNA decoding machine to assemble all the bits


 * elephant with shag carpeting on it


 * playing God


 * reason why Noah didn't put it on the ark
 * God didn't want it to survive like the unicorn


 * the woolly mammoth genome cannot be reconstructed, but can be stapled onto elephant DNA


 * no woolly mammoth mice


 * wants to bring back the saber tooth tiger
 * Neanderthals too


 * it would be disappointing if we brought them back and they weren't different from us


 * if we bring them back, they could get their revenge on us killing them


 * bring back plants too
 * so we can learn to survive the next ice age


 * global warming or ice age?
 * scientists can't get their stories straight