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'Closer than people think': Woolly mammoth 'de-extinction' is nearing reality — and we have no idea what happens next(www.livescience.com)

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stoly@lemmy.world
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Measured in human life it’s long ago. measured at universal scales, it was nothing.

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A good measurement for human timescales is the age difference between a child and their grandfather (~50 years, basically one generation of oral tradition).
The mammoths died out 80 grandfathers ago.

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That’s an interesting unit of measure for sure. I do get what you’re saying–that’s sort of the limit to where some knowledge can reach.

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