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Japanese scientists are proposing to "clone" a woolly Mammoth and it looks as if they have a very good shot at pulling it off. My question is, should they? Mammoths died out at the end of the last Ice Age. Although some scientists argue that man killed them all, I find that hard to believe. We don't have a complete understanding of how many humans may have been roaming the world at that time, but imagine how many people it would have taken to kill off an entire population of these animals. I know it happens all the time in today's world but, we are fast approaching the 7 billion people mark. Add to that the primitive weapons of the time and what it took to actually kill one. I feel as if perhaps they were meant to become extinct. But then, that's just my opinion and I'm no scientist.
My main question is...should we clone these animals just because we can? To what purpose? To find out why they all died? Again, to what purpose? What do you think?
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