VIDEO: Stewart Brand on 'The dawn of de-extinction. Are you ready?" - Let’s face it, the extinction of passenger pigeons hasn't worked out. We hunger to once again look up and see their famous flocks winging their way across the wide blue sky.

Stewart Brand: The dawn of de-extinction. Are you ready?

Throughout humankind’s history, we've driven species after species extinct: the passenger pigeon, the Eastern cougar, the dodo … But now, says Stewart Brand, we have the technology (and the biology) to bring back species that humanity wiped out. So — should we? Which ones? He asks a big question whose answer is closer than you may think.

http://longnow.org/revive/de-extinction/2013/stewart-brand-the-dawn-of-de-extinction-are-you-ready/

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