My job is done here now...
Posted on 11/19/2008 11:01:29 AM PST by Abathar
They survived in a much different climate than elephants do, turn a few lose in Canada or Siberia where there is plenty of room and let them have a chance once more.
Oh man!
I SO want to see a successfully cloned mammoth.
Congratulations! Mapping any genome is absolutely worthless science and contributes nothing...but, hey, nice work.
It’s like “Jurassic Park” starting to become reality. Crichton was definitely a man ahead of his time.
“biologists are hoping to glean insights into such mysteries as how woolly mammoths were adapted to their frigid world”
gee...I’m willing to bet a thick coat of hair and layer of fat would have something to do with it.
Mapping genomes has already given us much knowledge into what non genetic sequences are evolutionarily conserved between species, and biologists are finding out what regulatory roles these sequences have. We have also found several proteins more active in the human brain that in other primates, and the role of these proteins in human intelligence is being explored.
In other words, you have no idea what you are talking about.
Blah, blah, blah...sez you.
They probably taste good too.
[How cool is that, someday our grandkids might actually be able to bowhunt these things again like our ancestors did. ]
Given our likely rate of regression under the Obama regime, our grandkids may actually have to hunt like prehistoric Cro-Magnons to survive.
Mammoths were not an Arctic species. If somebody wants mammoths wandering protected around the temperate zone trampling corn crops that is what they will get if they keep this up. Buffalo in the barley is one thing, but mammoth in the maize will cost big.
I see the intellectual content of your posts has gone up. It has gone from the negative zone into zero. Keep up the improvement and good work and someday you might actually contribute a post that is both correct and contains intellectual value.
LOL - Hey, it will give the wolves something to chase after...
Ask some of the scientists who ate it a while back at a convention, they say it was delicious. Found one frozen, cut it up and they had woolly mammoth steaks one night.
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Genomic data has been an invaluable aid in understanding the role of non-genetic regulatory elements and what, on a biological basis, sets humans apart from other primates.
Why do you wish that the world would ignorant of genomic data? Your claim that it is of no use is obviously an abysmal error. Are there many other scientific subjects the inquiry into you wish to curtail? Somehow I don't think it is the utility of the data that makes you oppose it.
That’s a BS story. I heard variants of it in the past; simply not true.
SHHHH! Don’t give anyone ideas!
If it is then it has been around for a while. I remember hearing about it back in the early eighties, long before snopes was even imagined...
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