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In the video, “The dawn of de-extinction. Are you Ready”, Stewart Brand, introduced us to term de-extinction, the process of creating an organism that is extinct, and the global benefits of this process. In addition, Mr. Brand mentioned how humankind didn’t realize the biological impact of extinction until 1914, when the last female passenger pigeon died at the Cincinnati zoo. Moreover, how the number of this specie went from five billion birds to zero in couple decades, because of the out of control commercial hunting and other human activities. On the other hand, this specific consequence of the commercial hunting made people realize that the extinction of other species, like the American bison, will happen and needs to stop. Subsequently,

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