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And people are working to bring the chestnut back via genetic engineering: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/geneti...

The problem with extinction is that you are throwing away a working code base that took 3 billion years to write. Every organism that goes extinct before we sequence its genome is an absolute tragedy.



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