Showing posts with label resurrecting extinct species. Show all posts
Showing posts with label resurrecting extinct species. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Philosophers On The Science & Ethics of Resurrecting Extinct Species; Daily Nous, June 2, 2025

, Daily Nous; Philosophers On The Science & Ethics of Resurrecting Extinct Species

"“The Return of the Dire Wolf” announced Time magazine—not quite correctly, it turns out—in its article on the creation of three creatures genetically engineered into existence by the firm Colossal Biosciences.

Still, the biotechnology that led to the creation of those wolves is impressive. It opens a lot of possibilities, and of course raises a lot of questions, both about our understanding of what this technology actually does and our sense of how it should (and shouldn’t) be used. Those questions are taken up by several philosophers in this edition of Philosophers On."