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[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

I mean, it’s useful tech to be able to modify an organism to fit a certain ecological niche. Might save us after humans extinct the wrong species.

But it’s definitely incorrect to suggest that they recreated a species when they merely think they created a lookalike.