Eli5: Why can’t we clone endangered animals to save a species?
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For the same reason why you shouldn’t have sex with your siblings. Cloning creates an identical genetic match, there is currently no mechanism to artificially create genetic diversity in order to increase the wild population of a species to a large enough level to make them no longer endangered. Secondly, it’s a really expensive way to not even address the issue. Animals are extinct because we encroach on their habitats or hunt them, making more of them won’t solve that problem.
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