Can We Bring Back the Passenger Pigeon?
▻http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/04/20/resurrection-science-bring-back-passenger-pigeon
The recovery of the first complete #Neanderthal genome was announced in 2013. The #de-extinction of a Neanderthal looks to be, from a technical point of view, relatively easy compared with the de-extinction of the passenger pigeon. Yet the very prospect of such an attempt brings into sharp focus all of the moral, ethical, social, and environmental dilemmas inherent in the new technology—and indeed in de-extinction science itself.
[...] Typically, the technology has arrived in advance of the wisdom to use it judiciously.