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 (DIR) Post #AkCqvGvAI9qrFXmepM by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2024-07-23T01:08:52Z
       
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       DNA stores information. But organisms and biomes aren't just information you can reconstitute from DNA. (I don't care how advanced the tech is, it's incomplete information, better than saying you can bring a skeleton back to life, but not by as much as some sci-fi seems to think)Every organism is a bit of a siphonophore, a bit of a termite, a bit of lichen. That is a conglomerate of living things with history and a unique balence.
       
 (DIR) Post #AkCrF7vlQYll9sX1AO by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2024-07-23T01:12:28Z
       
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       What if you bring back leaf-cutter ants without their fungus? (and the many bacteria that regulate the fungus, and the mites, and the things we don't even know about...)To get a snapshot of a biome you either need to understand it at a level we have never come close to (all the interactions, all the players)-- or just take a whole hunk of wild habitat and protect everything in it until we grow up enough to try to understand it. (Which might mean evolving in some new ways ourselves first.)
       
 (DIR) Post #AkCrJ6YaTdze3WaUpk by beeftacos@famichiki.jp
       2024-07-23T01:13:03Z
       
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       @futurebird I remember the first cloned cats looked nothing like the original clonees.  So we know it's not just DNA.  I imagine there must be a lot going on during fetal development?  Identical twins share the same DNA and the same uterus at the same time.
       
 (DIR) Post #AkCsRR3AGf5VswQToW by MichaelPorter@ottawa.place
       2024-07-23T01:25:52Z
       
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       @futurebird Imagine what happens if we managed to remove all the “non-human” entities from a person (I’ll let you keep your mitochondria 😉). How long would that person survive? They would be in pretty bad shape for a while, at least.
       
 (DIR) Post #AkCtiDlL1WPTYGeijg by MLE_online@social.afront.org
       2024-07-23T01:40:03Z
       
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       @futurebird I remember reading one of those jurassic park books when i was young and for some reason, a detail that stuck with me was the velociraptors having a messed up society because they had been raised without ancestors to teach them their culture. So, their nests were in disarray and their babies weren't properly cared for.
       
 (DIR) Post #AkCzW1G8HgTJ1VcnDs by qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
       2024-07-23T02:45:07Z
       
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       @futurebird, have you read Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas? Recommend 💯 A series of essays about science. One chapter is about bacteria that live in the guts of termites that are instrumental and necessary in the digestion of cellulose. He suggested an all out research project, a moon shot effort so to speak, to find out how they do it, and we’ll learn a whole lot of other useful stuff along the way. It is a delightful read. As are his several other books, but this is my fave.
       
 (DIR) Post #AkD5xjuOzBiL2r3sau by rye@ioc.exchange
       2024-07-23T03:57:10Z
       
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       @futurebird the more I garden I realize how much we are absolutely a part of something much larger than us. Here is desert moss. It came from the same water that falls from the sky.That pools in our ground.