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I will make the argument that we are poorly adapted to our current environment. I mean, we did not evolve to sit all day and be exposed to giant amounts of really tasty food.

~George M. Church

Topics: Adapted All Day Amount Argument Current Day Did Environment Evolve Exposed Food Giant Make Mean Our Poorly Really Sit Tasty Will

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We will have to make a decision, as we go into new environments outside of earth, whether we want to drag along with us all our pathogens. We can, or we can't - it's up to us - but I consider that part of genome engineering is how we interact with the huge part of our genome which is our microbiome.

~George M. Church

Topics: Along Consider Decision Drag Earth Engineering Environments Genome Go How Huge Huge Part Interact Make New Our Outside Part Up Us Want Whether Which Will

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What I really wanted was for everybody to have their genome and, ideally, everybody to share their genome, and for that, we needed to bring the price way down.

~George M. Church

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If we can come up with a way of backing up my brain into another that I have in my back-pack, we'll do it. People talk themselves out of things very easily. Things that they think are a million years away, or never, are actually four years away.

~George M. Church

Topics: Actually Another Away Backing Brain Come Easily Four Million Million Years Never Out People Talk Themselves Things Think Up Very Way Years

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The goal of reanimation research is not to make perfect living copies of extinct organisms, nor is it meant to be a one-off stunt in a laboratory or zoo. Reanimation is about leveraging the best of ancient and synthetic DNA.

~George M. Church

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A few dozen changes to the genome of a modern elephant - to give it subcutaneous fat, woolly hair and sebaceous glands - might suffice to create a variation that is functionally similar to the mammoth. Returning this keystone species to the tundras could stave off some effects of warming.

~George M. Church

Topics: Changes Could Create Dozen Effects Elephant Fat Few Genome Give Glands Hair Keystone Might Modern Off Returning Similar Some Species Suffice Variation Warming

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Aside from bringing back extinct species, reanimation could help living ones by restoring lost genetic diversity. The Tasmanian devil (aka Sarcophilus harrisii) is so inbred at this point that most species members can exchange tumor cells without rejection.

~George M. Church

Topics: Aside Back Bringing Cells Could Devil Diversity Exchange Extinct Genetic Help Living Lost Members Most Point Rejection Restoring Species Tumor Without

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Preventing ongoing extinction of elephants, rhinoceroses, and other threatened species is critically important. By all means, we must set priorities for allocating finite conservation resources.

~George M. Church

Topics: Conservation Critically Elephants Extinction Finite Important Means Must Ongoing Other Preventing Priorities Resources Set Species Threatened

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The best way to predict the future is to change it.

~George M. Church

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Why would you not have a robot that looks like Abraham Lincoln? Why would it look like an erector set? Why use a computer with a punchcard, when you could use one with a touch pen on the screen? Why a car, when you could use a jetpack?

~George M. Church

Topics: Abraham Abraham Lincoln Car Computer Could Like Lincoln Look Looks Pen Robot Screen Set Touch Use Why Would You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: August 28th, 1954

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