Comments on: Book review – Rise of the Necrofauna: The Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction

By: Book review – Nature’s Ghosts: The World We Lost and How to Bring It Back | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 25 Oct 2024 15:16:26 +0000

[…] plants and invertebrates can rely on dormancy as a survival strategy to bridge time. Step aside deextinction! This “is scratching back the surface to reveal the real thing” (p. […]

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By: Book review – Ancient DNA: The Making of a Celebrity Science | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 11:35:32 +0000

[…] this was rarely the goal of their research, and highlight the serious ethical and practical issues (something I agree with), they were nevertheless happy to reference Jurassic Park to garner public interest. While […]

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By: Book review – A Dog’s World: Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World without Humans | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 31 May 2023 13:35:59 +0000

[…] strikes me as a very important point that applies more broadly to discussions around rewilding and de-extinction, especially in what these can hope to achieve and what is and is not […]

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By: Book review – Dinosaurs – 10 Things You Should Know: 230 Million Years for People Short on Time | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 08 Dec 2022 11:49:38 +0000

[…] Similarly, when discussing the idea of bringing back mammoths via a process known as de-extinction, he writes: “if this were to be successful, the resulting creation would never be an actual […]

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By: Book review – Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined – and Redefined – Nature | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 25 Oct 2021 09:18:46 +0000

[…] pull species back from the brink of extinction. She carefully and cautiously considers the topic of de-extinction and comes away not entirely convinced that resurrecting species is a good idea. Simultaneously, the […]

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By: Book review – On the Prowl: In Search of Big Cat Origins | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 15:59:27 +0000

[…] Having told the story of big cat evolution, it would have been an oversight to turn a blind eye to the massive losses caused by human greed and cruelty. Thus, these chapters and their no-punches-pulled tone are fully justified. One chapter focuses on the early decline following the last ice age, in particular discussing the decline of the steppe lion (of the four discussed extinction scenarios, only one involves humans). I was somewhat surprised to see only minimal mention of Paul Martin’s overkill hypothesis when drawing a comparison to the fate of the American lion, Panthera atrox, and no mention at all of End of the Megafauna that critically discussed it. A second chapter picks up the story of extinction with the slaughter of big cats in Roman amphitheatres and habitat destruction ever since agriculture took off some ten thousand years ago. It also prominently mentions the huge impact of trophy hunting by western colonialists in Africa and Asia. The last chapter highlights the ongoing threats of poaching and wildlife trafficking (particularly slamming tiger farms in China and the canned lion hunting industry in Africa), human-wildlife conflict between carnivores and cattle herders, the shortcomings of national parks, and reasonable and critical consideration of future options such as captive breeding, rewilding, and de-extinction. […]

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