Self-liberate even the antidote

Scientists Warn Dire Wolf Could Bring 'Unintended Consequences'
(after the Rolling Stone report)

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Five-month-old Romulus and Remus,
two fluffy, snow-white wolves,
80 pounds and still growing.

Twenty edits to 14 genes
to bring it closer —
create engineer
healthy animals.

A species is really just a construct,
a helpful label.
If it looks like a dire wolf
and it acts like a dire wolf,
I'm gonna call it a dire wolf.

But we're not having that conversation.

We are introducing placing things
into existing ecosystems —
you're in the law of unintended consequences.
Sometimes you can't predict what happens
in these complex systems
when you start to tweak them.

Where are we gonna put them?

[Image] The brothers are still growing. The compound has 2,000 acres and a fence.