
Will someone clone an extinct animal, such as a mammoth, by the end of the decade?
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@Lemming Their genes are edited based on actual dire wolf DNA samples, not just to be "a bit more like what ... direwolves looked like." But yes, it's very unclear whether this should count as an actual "extinct animal." Ben S had some sophisticated thoughts on this on his similar market, basically:
- estimate how close the cloned animals' DNA is to historic dire wolves compared to modern wolves
- estimate how much of the remaining DNA gap is functional/load bearing vs junk/unimportant
- estimate whether they could interbreed successfully with historic dire wolves
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