The originals:
- I posted about the tortoises we saw on Santa Cruz, one of the Galapagos islands.
- I posted about naturalists happily involved in a multi-century restoration project in the Scottish Highlands.
The follow-up: Geneticists are working to recover an extinct tortoise species, through selective breeding of hybrids from early sailors moving tortoises from one island to another.
“I will not be alive to see a ‘pure’ Floreana tortoise,” Caccone says. It’s likely that no one will.
Isabel – If an extinct species of Galapagos tortoise is ever recovered, do you think it will also inhabit Jurassic Park?
On another note, once the world is run by artificial intelligence as posited by Stephen Hawking, do you think AI will care about organic species, either living or extinct?
John W
John – I wouldn’t even hazard a guess about an AI future. Sort of glad I won’t see it, though . . .