The simpleton thinking, arrogance and hubris is beyond my conception.
Let’s bring back mega fauna, who care’s that today is an entirely different biosphere, never thought of that, hey, but look what we can do in this lab.
What difference might their peer reviewed paper make for the moral of this story?
By Riley Black, April 10, 2025
"… To put it another way, Colossal’s dire wolves are like Tesla’s disastrous Cybertruck. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the co-founder of Colossal is a billionaire. Someone rich felt a pang of nostalgia and made a demand. The infamous and ugly Cybertruck was inspired by video game vehicles. Colossal’s wolves are prestige TV creatures.
"This kind of thinking is everywhere: Blue Origin is sending Katy Perry way high up into the sky, a stunt to help sell a sci-fi daydream of one day taking a bus to Moon.
"This isn’t progress; it’s a bunch of toys.
"Meanwhile, the government is actively gutting science and health agencies, and firing people who do the challenging and often-unglamourous work that research involves—not for personal glory and a shiny press treatment, but simply to advance knowledge and make the world better for the humans and creatures who already live here.
My guess, it would reveal that didn’t do much. They did some regular old gene splicing and made a special doggy. This is not a step toward saving the planet from the destruction humans have wrought.
I believe the goal can be faster and better achieved by replacing ape-chromosomes 2p and 2q with human chromosome 2 that results in a larger brain growth.
All other chromosomes are cosmetic and adaptive to the environment, as is evident by the variety in the non-human great ape species, even as they have the same number of chromosomes.
That single mutated chromosome is what sets humans apart from all other apes.
Consider the increased and more complex growth-potential in a chromosome that is twice the size of 2 single chromosomes .
If that fused chromosome was instrumental to larger brain growth, that would logically explain that humans did not evolve via the normal gradual natural selection process over many generations, but in a single generation that produced the ape with the mutated large brain, i.e humans.
i.e. the map is incorrect.
All other minor chromosomal changes seem to be cosmetic and adaptive to a migration from mainly vegetarian tree-dwelling lifestyle to a more versatile tree/ ground-dwelling as contrasted with the strictly ground-dwelling long distance travelling hunting-gathering lifestyle and migration of humans across all continents.