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Lars Kenseth
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“There are all sorts of hormones from the mother that can affect the fetus when life starts to sprout.”
― Rise of the Necrofauna: A Provocative Look at the Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction
― Rise of the Necrofauna: A Provocative Look at the Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction
“Later, back in the lab, Roy Weber, a professor in the Department of Bioscience at Aarhus University, spins the liquid in a vial to run tests on it, allowing him to see that the dark liquid was indeed full of red blood cells. But they had all broken open and released their hemoglobin—the molecule that carries oxygen in blood—out into the slurry.”
― Rise of the Necrofauna: A Provocative Look at the Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction
― Rise of the Necrofauna: A Provocative Look at the Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction
“Even when beautifully maintained mammoth carcasses that are pulled out of frozen Siberian soils ooze with liquid resembling blood, the cells that scientists recover have always been damaged.”
― Rise of the Necrofauna: A Provocative Look at the Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction
― Rise of the Necrofauna: A Provocative Look at the Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction
“When a species goes extinct, the role it once played in its ecosystem—as a fertilizer, forest disturber, predator, and so on—vanishes along with it.”
― Rise of the Necrofauna: A Provocative Look at the Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction
― Rise of the Necrofauna: A Provocative Look at the Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction
“it took more than two hundred implantation attempts in fifty-seven goats for seven of them to get pregnant. Out of those seven pregnancies, only one was brought to term, and on July 30, 2003, Celia’s clone—the world’s first unextinct animal—was born, weighing in at 4.5 pounds. Roughly ten minutes later, though, she died; an extra growth on her lung prevented her from flourishing, and the bucardo became extinct a second time around.”
― Rise of the Necrofauna: A Provocative Look at the Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction
― Rise of the Necrofauna: A Provocative Look at the Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction
Lars’s 2025 Year in Books
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