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Cloning the Woolly Mammoth

In November 2008, a team of scientists at the University of Pennsylvania reported they had sequenced a large fraction of the Mammoth genome. The genome of any living species is the DNA genes which make up the chromosomes that reside in the nucleus of every cell and if we have that, then we might be able recreate the entire beast. We are on the road that leads to cloning a whoolly mammoth.

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Scientists Recreate Neanderthal Voices

Thanks to some very complex research and a computer synthesizer, scientists have obtained a rough estimation of what a Neanderthal voice must have sounded like. OOG! Image from Flickr That’s a very basic building block, and perhaps the only one we’ll ever obtain, towards figuring out the language [...]

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