de-extinction

American  

[dee-ik-stingk-shuhn] / ˌdi ɪkˈstɪŋk ʃən /

noun

1. the act or process of bringing back an extinct life form or of producing a similar one by means of various techniques, such as cloning or genome modification using organic matter from preserved remains, or selective breeding to restore a trait that has become rare in the living population.

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Example Sentences

Colossal Biosciences insists that what they are doing with their de-extinction projects is conservation.

From Slate

Whether we should see this as a neat bit of symbolism about de-extinction or a defiant, stubborn reference to industries that ought to have died out long ago is an open question.

From Salon

But in April, Colossal announced a more substantial, still pretty cute achievement: the alleged de-extinction of the dire wolf, in the form of three wolfish pups named Romulus, Remus and Khaleesi.

From Salon

While not the most high profile among the critics, fantasy writer Ian Smith nevertheless addresses their argument neatly on his blog, when he writes of de-extinction that “it’s not merely nonsense, but dangerous nonsense. It makes extinction sound like something that’s solvable through scientific jiggery-pokery, an error that can be fixed without the arduous, inconvenient lengths that human beings need to go to to prevent extinctions happening, which is to stop killing life-forms through hunting, habitat-destruction, economic consumption and general greed, cruelty and ignorance.”

From Salon

"The whole thing seems like such a racket to me, like a circus sideshow is how I think of it," Noah Greenwald of the Center for Biological Diversity, told Salon in a video interview about the dire wolf and other de-extinction projects.

From Salon