April 8, 2019

  • Would bringing back extinct animals turn out as badly as it did in ‘Jurassic Park’?

    X6WD2PSURAI6TDXT7PKBULHE2U(Illustration by Hisham Akira Bharoocha for The Washington Post Magazine)

    By Jason Nark of the Washington Post

    April 1

    On a frigid January night, a Harvard genetics professor with a billowing white beard stood stage left in a theater on Manhattan's Upper East Side, an icon of the environmentalist movement in a fleece vest beside him. Both men were staring down a toothy problem: How could they convince their counterparts on the stage, along with the 300 people who'd filed into Hunter College's Kaye Playhouse for a debate, that the world should bring back velociraptors or, at the very least, an extinct pigeon?

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