Evolution assumes that extinction is forever. Maybe not. Henry Nicholls asks what it would take to bring the woolly mammoth back from the dead.
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Nicholls, H. Darwin 200: Let's make a mammoth. Nature 456, 310–314 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/456310a
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