De-extinction is the act of bringing an entire species back from the grave. It's the real-life version of Jurassic Park. And today, National Geographic and the Long Now Foundation are sponsoring a special TEDxDeExtinction event, where scientists and researchers are discussing whether we'll ever bring back mastodons and even Neandertals. Tune into the live feed right now.
Here's today's agenda, which you can watch live right here.
Livestream of the event is here.INTRO
John Fahey – “A New Century of Exploration”
Chris Anderson – “TED Welcomes You”
Carl Zimmer – “(Some) EXTINCTION IS (not necessarily) FOREVER
WHO
Isabella Kirkland – “A Still Life of Stilled Life”
Susan Haig – “Bringing Back the Birds of Our Dreams”
Hendrik Poinar – “Not All Mammoths Were Woolly”
Michael Archer – “Second Chance for Tasmanian Tigers and Fantastic Frogs”
Joel Sartore – “Endangered Studio”
HOW
Alberto Fernández-Arias – “The First De-extinction”
Oliver Ryder – “Genetic Rescue and Biodiversity Banking”
Robert Lanza – “The Use of Cloning and Stem Cells to Resurrect Life”
George Church – “Hybridizing with Extinct Species”
Michael McGrew – “Pigeons from Chickens”
Ben Novak – “How to Bring Passenger Pigeons All the Way Back”
Noon to 1:15PM LUNCH
WHY AND WHY NOT
Stanley Temple – “De-extinction: A Game-changer for Conservation Biology”
David Ehrenfeld – “Extinction Reversal? Don’t Count on It.”
Kate Jones – “Why and Why Not Is a Matter of Specifics”
James Tate – “Rules, Regs, and Reactions”
Beth Shapiro – “Ancient DNA: What It Is and What It Could Be”
Hank Greely – “De-extinction: Hubris or Hope?”
WILD AGAIN
Henri Kerkdijk-Otten – “Restoring Europe’s Wildlife with Aurochs and Others”
Kent Redford – “Tainted Species?”
William Powell – “Reviving the American Forest with the American Chestnut”
David Burney – “Rewilding, Ecological Surrogacy, and Now… De-extinction?”
Michael Mace – “California Condors Back from the Brink”
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