De-extinction (Biotechnology and Society)

Required Reading/Viewing
// Also read "Your de-extinction questions answered" (required). There are a host of (optional) related articles and videos linked from the National Geographic De-extinction page. // See especially the links under "Candidates".
 * 1) Brand2013 Stewart Brand TED Talk (Feb 2013) "The dawn of de-extinction. Are you ready?" (20 min)
 * 2) Archer2013 Michael Archer TED Talk (March 2013) "How we'll resurrect the gastric brooding frog, the Tasmanian tiger" (20 min)
 * 3) Zimmer2013 Carl Zimmer. (April 2013) "Bringing Them Back to Life" National Geographic Magazine. Article Link
 * 1) LongNow The Long Now Foundation: Revive & Restore

Additional Resources
//Describes efforts to sequence the Neanderthal genome.
 * 1) Noonan2010 pmid=20439435