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de-extinction, the instrument, the gap

The Bird Comes Back As A Record

A Texas lab hatched chicks from artificial eggs and called it a step toward reviving the dodo. What it can revive is a reconstruction at the resolution of the surviving record, and the gaps in that record do not come back.

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