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Published online 18 February 2009 | Nature 457, 949 (2009) | doi:10.1038/457949f

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Soundbites from Chicago

"We are basically looking now at a future climate that is beyond anything we've considered seriously in climate model simulations."

"[Cloning a Neanderthal] starting from the DNA extracted from a fossil is and will remain impossible as far as I can see into the future."

"If life did happen many times, there could be something like a shadow biosphere that either was, or is, all around us."

"[President Obama] sees the value of science not just as a way of keeping those strange members of our society employed who want to go off and do quirky things. … He is really valuing the product."

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