Hendrik Poinar: Bring back the woolly mammoth!

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11 жыл бұрын

It's the dream of kids all around the world to see giant beasts walk the Earth again. Could -- and should -- that dream be realized? Hendrik Poinar gives an informative talk on the next -- really -- big thing: The quest to engineer a creature that looks very much like our furry friend, the woolly mammoth. The first step, to sequence the woolly genome, is nearly complete. And it's huge. (Filmed at TEDxDeExtinction.)
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@dsouzand 8 жыл бұрын

It would be amazing to see them up close and in person again

@marciocoelho2481 4 жыл бұрын

I'm 50, I don't have much time left. JUST DO IT!

@ExclusiveManual 11 жыл бұрын

Bring em back! I wanna hug one.

@Treshet 9 жыл бұрын

7:15 technologeee

@PizzaRatJC 5 жыл бұрын

All I wanted was to be able to play music with youtube closed, but this is neat too.

@masudranaakash5613 4 жыл бұрын

it's 2019 and where is your wooly mammoth?

@Randomname235 3 жыл бұрын

I know right it’s like 7 years ago

@alicantino1151 3 жыл бұрын

@@Randomname235 Now 8 years ago...

@promitbanerjee5241 2 жыл бұрын

By 2027, most probably they'll be roaming!!!!!!!! Yes u read it right.

@ishrendon6435 2 жыл бұрын

@@promitbanerjee5241 lol ok

@25jai123 11 жыл бұрын

Dr. Poinar! From McMaster! I did my undergrad in science there and took a course with him :D

@GuilhermeCosta1992 11 жыл бұрын

This guy... just this guy, made a beautiful Ted Talk. I can hear passion and intelligence in his speech.

@benchohrazidelkhir4042 7 жыл бұрын

thank you so much

@samaoumari7966 3 жыл бұрын

Very hopeful for this project

@trizmisce 11 жыл бұрын

reminds me of the game "Siberia", Hans would be so happy :)

@matthewa6881 7 жыл бұрын

this is huge, world-shaking progress.

@tryfinally 11 жыл бұрын

Not only is it cool, it's AMAZING by every definition of the word known to me.

@MrJoelOwen 11 жыл бұрын

I was imagining the theme of Jurassic Park playing throughout the whole thing right after he mentioned that the picture was an inspiration for it

@DRV110 11 жыл бұрын

Thats beautiful.

@Toastmaster_5000 11 жыл бұрын

i admire this guy's responsibility and ambition

@JinkisuiAfterm4th 6 жыл бұрын

Nice talk

@popaddict 11 жыл бұрын

Ooh that new TED intro looking fantastic!

@DaynaJade321 11 жыл бұрын

Just the fact that we could do this is extraordinary enough for me.

@wildernessexplorers3351 10 жыл бұрын

Stop talking and start cloning damnit.

@tempjohn3510 6 жыл бұрын

The year is now 2017 - no woolly mammoth -_-

@Blake4014 6 жыл бұрын

Agree, when I was in highschool they were talking about reviving the mammoth... they're sure are taking their time.

@mikeavila987 6 жыл бұрын

Blufor 4014 Yeah, 1-2-3! Boom Wooly Mammoth! This isn't television, it won't take 8 years, it will probably take a lot longer.

@suelane3628 6 жыл бұрын

They talk about the DNA but not the histones & methyl groups which bind to the DNA and act as switches. This is acknowledged when comparing ourselves to our nearest relatives which share 100% of genes with us....apart from some endogenous viruses which are switched on in the human line. It seems we are still ashamed of having a recent common ancestry with the Bonobos c.6mya.

@voidremoved 4 жыл бұрын

revive the EARTH and all "extinct" species will re-emerge organically. pursue science and you will all mutate and die, diseased and soulless.

@tinolino58 11 жыл бұрын

one of the better Tedtalks..

@tuxuhds6955 4 жыл бұрын

Actual wisdom in a genetic scientist, There's yet hope! :) Chapeau!

@aslanmane 11 жыл бұрын

That was amazing!

@IAmTunnelRat 11 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU SIR

@MrPotatoesLatkie 11 жыл бұрын

Maybe we like elephants because they are so big and, unusual looking? The other reasons he suggested are just icing on the cake.

@CraigRattleHead 11 жыл бұрын

Bring them back it would be amazing.

@kris6682 11 жыл бұрын

it's crazy, at first i thought that was what this video was about, before i realized it was uploaded by ted.

@ImaginaryMdA 11 жыл бұрын

Oh, hell yes!!! I am so excited about this!

@Jayremy89 11 жыл бұрын

A wonderful change in today's dynamics it would be.

@krastan 11 жыл бұрын

my precious

@relo999 10 жыл бұрын

While that'll look the thing to do in most optics the biggest one is often forgotten: having a stable ecosystem. While most endangered species could be saved most of them don't fill an important part in the ecosystem. The mammoth was part of an ecosystem that, to some extend, depended on mega fauna and that ecosystem is still there but without the vegetative mega-fauna.

@sadochrist8534 11 жыл бұрын

This man would probably make a good teacher

@Slurm_Daddy92 7 жыл бұрын

why haven't we already done this? just do it!!

@tempjohn3510 6 жыл бұрын

still not done yet....

@tempjohn3510 6 жыл бұрын

maybe no DNA found i'm guessing. Heck I want a megalodon so that the JAWS movies gets a reboot xD

@thatdutchguy2882 6 жыл бұрын

James The Human Very short sighted request m8,....do some more thinking on the subject. (I suggest the ramifications part of the issue as a start)

@FirstnameLastname-do1px 6 жыл бұрын

Massively expense.

@thatdutchguy2882 6 жыл бұрын

Jacob Zondag He'll forget to put fur on the animals and only invent a Smilodon Populator hybrid with some Neanderthal DNA creature in there for dramatic effect, no thanks. Keep to Walking with Beasts,...still flawed but much better.

@AguzSuiCaedere 11 жыл бұрын

Better yet, do both!

@trick0171 11 жыл бұрын

I'm glad he said what he did at the end. Just because we can do something doesn't mean we should. Creating creatures that can suffer greatly just so we can say: "oooh...cool" isn't a good enough reason.

@Silentace121 11 жыл бұрын

Exciting stuff

@alinstoi 11 жыл бұрын

That would awesome!!!

@jonathanroberts727 Жыл бұрын

You would think we would have them by now.

@Rhah- 7 жыл бұрын

When has the the ethical conundrum of 'should we' ever stopped humans from doing something in the first place? It's simply a matter of time, and that is a guarantee. We've already tackled the fundamentals of cloning; Next up: De-Extinction. I'm on the fence on this one. I can justify an argument in either direction we could go from here. I'd say that any extinction events that humans were directly or partially responsible for should be considered.

@conillusionist 11 жыл бұрын

awesome!

@fathursyahna5751 8 жыл бұрын

THE WOOLY MAMUTHUS (MAMMOTHS) ARE TRULLY KING of MAMALS . and that tusks are extreamly fucking deadly and empower

@ntLonky 11 жыл бұрын

I agree. Sometimes is better to leave dead things dead.

@BenCrews 11 жыл бұрын

Incredible

@jazzysaravana 11 жыл бұрын

Great talk and idea but throughout the presentation this guy reminded me of the Pastmaster from Swat Cats cartoon show! :D

@flutterflowexpert 11 жыл бұрын

i wanna see such an animal in the wild in Sybiria! this will be AMAZING!!!!!

@TnEEn 11 жыл бұрын

wish i had ur job!

@suttonsplash14 6 жыл бұрын

Build it!!!

@Ragatokk 11 жыл бұрын

Plan, haha thats a good one!

@DieRedo 11 жыл бұрын

You never played Syberia, it was my favorite game as kid and i can say, i would love mamoths.

@animistchannel2983 6 жыл бұрын

Hendrik seems like what would happen if Sealy Booth had been a "squint" instead. Just a funny coincidence. Good talk, great science though :)

@makexxwar 11 жыл бұрын

There are a number of ways it could be beneficial. For one thing, We could observe a living mammoth for the first time directly, and we could prove that its possible to bring an animal back from a state of extinction. Cloning has other applications as well if perfected, such as growing new organs (although we may be able to just print new organs in the future, so that isn't as exciting of a possibility as it used to be).

@jameslee1145 10 жыл бұрын

So will we eventually get the columbian mammoth? I sure hope so.

@trick0171 11 жыл бұрын

Exactly! :)

@DunedinDino99 10 жыл бұрын

To those saying that the mammoth habitat is gone, go to Siberia and see for yourself. The Siberian tundra is still there. It hasn't turned into a fucking jungle. It is still tundra, and mammoths could still live there. 10,000 years ago: Siberia is tundra. 2014: It's still fucking tundra.

@DunedinDino99 10 жыл бұрын

Also, there is a reason why mammoths are extinct. We wiped them out by hunting them. So if we wiped them out and the Siberian tundra is still there (which it is), we should bring them back. And Collin, there is no god.

@RoScFan 8 жыл бұрын

+A Regular Nutcase Maybe I have a wishful thinking, but maybe it wasn't early humans that killed off mammoths. I mean really so many many many animals like that, wholly rhinos, giant elk etc. all died out at the same time. Humans in that day and age weren't THAT numerous, they didn't eat THAT much meat. But more importantly.... while I can easily agree that humans may have killed all the megafauna in Europe, in all of humanity's 250 000 years history, north-eastern Siberia and north eastern North America have been highly depopulated. So very few people were living there, it takes that few people to bring so many animals to extinction? Also, how come some of them did survive, like the Siberian yak or the Musk Ox? Seems to me to be an issue of food. Maybe the amount of food ran out, tundra now and tundra during the Ice Age were surely different, and that differnce might just be in what type of species of plants lived.

@lancetschirhart7676 8 жыл бұрын

+RoScFan It is rarely going to be one single thing that eliminates any total population. They were hunted by humans only after humans invented the tools to do so, and that certainly didn't help. Throw other selection pressures into the mix as well and you probably have the whole story.

@johnrambo3439 5 жыл бұрын

2018: It's still a tundra.

@holleey 11 жыл бұрын

that we will see. progression means to not leave anything undone.

@Ebrand0n 11 жыл бұрын

I think we should wait until we have a alternate planets to go to, if something were to go wrong.

@hendrik1769 6 жыл бұрын

I can't disagree with another Hendrik!

@JohanssonJ92 10 жыл бұрын

Lets start a KS for it?.. that creature would be bad ass.

@ZFox57 11 жыл бұрын

Mammoth blood was just found in Siberia

@Cheesesteakfreak 7 жыл бұрын

No. Don't wait. Clone it now. It and dinosaurs and everything else. And make new animals and godzilla.

@haroldinho9930 4 жыл бұрын

If we make dinosaurs,they will just die,their food is gone,and Godzilla is literally impossible because it’s too big

@ademsaidani6775 3 жыл бұрын

@@haroldinho9930 it was a joke dude

@haroldinho9930 3 жыл бұрын

mioas crouk doesn’t sound like it, I see no sarcasm This would be sarcasm “CMON MAKE GODZILLA AND DINOSAURS YOU PRUNES”

@johnpatterson8697 5 жыл бұрын

bring back the lonesome George

@weiyit268 11 жыл бұрын

The way he speaks occasionally resembles Christoph Waltz

@leftysrightwich 11 жыл бұрын

It is amazing. I pause though to think deeper than my initial reaction. We(mankind) I don't believe were a factor in the mammoth' s extinction. This seems to factor in with me. And, have we even figured out how to harmoniously live with the elephants, as well as other species on the endangered list. Plus all the new diseases, bacteria,, etc versus the mammoth' s immune system. just my opinion....

@iluan_ 11 жыл бұрын

Consider the following. There are some species (not just animals) whose gene pool is already too small, and thus are doomed to extinction in the following decades regardless of how much effort we put on preserving them (effort that we could invest preserving species that are more likely to survive). To restore habitats we might eventually have to bring those species back, and if we are able to retrieve a species that disappeared so long ago, we surely can bring recently extincted species back.

@SUFHolbek 11 жыл бұрын

And even then, it would probably only be in "laboratories"

@zohanthecat 11 жыл бұрын

Brace for the return of MEGAMOTH the supreme leader of all mammoths. Word is it is He who will create SKYNET and kill us all with flying robomammoths.

@LeonidasGGG 11 жыл бұрын

Jurassic Park here we come! :D

@TheRamos07 10 жыл бұрын

there's another video on here with Georage Monbiot who discusses just that!

@hjewkes 11 жыл бұрын

After looking at it a couple times I think the north pole is in the center, thats europe in the upper right, mexico on the far left, Japan at the bottom

@Isidore_de_Sevilla 11 жыл бұрын

True, but just as the guy said at the end this is something that should be given a lot of thought. Also, you should watch the film Gattaca, my english class is doing a study on it. It details what happens when a "new" experiment, meant to aide us a lot backfires on society. Extremely relevant considering the "sci-fi" then is actually real science being done right now.

@CurtHowland 11 жыл бұрын

"I used to gaze through the"?

@Bushtailedwildcat 11 жыл бұрын

Ecosystems are broken technically by removing key species relied upon for the dispersal of seeds, manipulation of environment for colonisation of other species, redistribution of stored nutrients etc… The reintroduction of a lost key species thus, can be catalytic for the fecundity of a region’s productivity. The recovery and reintroduction of the woolly mammoth is potentially beneficial and important for the northern Siberian tundra.

@thewinematcher 11 жыл бұрын

Hmm. Bringing back the 'replica' of a wolly

@AtomPumpkin 10 жыл бұрын

Well*

@EddieD1012 11 жыл бұрын

Well the idea is that much of the genome between the mammoth and modern day elephant is exactly the same. So theoretically if all the differences in the genome were recognized and altered properly, an exact replica of the woolly mammoth will be produced. I agree with you in that I think it's possible for some of those issues, you mentioned, to arise if scientists are not able to recognize every difference in the mammoth genome. This is probably likely since they only have fragments to work with

@sgtunix 11 жыл бұрын

Let's do this.

@romehalt 11 жыл бұрын

Poachers must be waiting outside his lab...

@drunkdonutboy 11 жыл бұрын

I've heard this talk since I was 12? 7? Still no Mammoth.

@TheFishboywill 11 жыл бұрын

I agree with you entirely. It was a conscious personification, I personified that by natural processes the Mammoth went extinct and we would be disrupting the processes to revive it, that's all.

@Cybernaut551 2 жыл бұрын

Let's have mammoths at the ConFurry.

@Dilligaf777 11 жыл бұрын

if they exstinct they will bring them back over 100 years

@jameslee1145 10 жыл бұрын

Hypothetically, could reviving the Woolly Mammoth lead to the revival of the Columbian mammoth?

@johnhall123456789 11 жыл бұрын

Straight Jurassic Park

@Silverjda 11 жыл бұрын

The planet's default setting was no ice caps for over a billion year before the first ice age. By trying to keep it at this semi ice age would be doing the planet more harm.

@davesurprenant5548 9 жыл бұрын

What is the deal with humans? We want to resurrect mammoths while we drive elephants to extinction. We want to colonize Mars while we abuse our own planet to the point where parts of it are barely habitable.

@Yogakayakmayak 9 жыл бұрын

Human'S are sucker'S and would do anything for a new trill. Come on. They will do it guaranty you.

@dictionaryzzz 9 жыл бұрын

Dave Surprenant the deal is that we each have our own missions in life

@RoScFan 8 жыл бұрын

+Dave Surprenant Different people want and do different things.

@arefeshghi 7 жыл бұрын

Of course, please note that those who want to resurrect mammoths are not necessirly those who drive elephants to extinction. The same goes with the planet. However, I get your point that as an animal, group, race or community (whatever you like to call it) we are not doing well. Actually, overall we are often failing and that's because not all humans have the same priorities, values, discipline and most important, we are not all well-educated. You look at KZfaq comments and you see many ignorant people sitting behind computers!

@alfalafelstine1536 6 жыл бұрын

I want to see us colonize and terraform Mars. We'll need to genetically taylor lifeforms to the new semi-earthlike environment, and mammoths could be a useful addition, as the ecosystem will be largely tundra.

@Stonedtosheep 11 жыл бұрын

Simple understanding. You took my reply to far. Engineering a single wooly mammoth could lead to greater social/ scientific understanding. What did we learn from the Atom bomb? Where has it brought us as a species? It brought us a better understanding of our universe. Albeit there some people who ignore the understanding that comes with our discoveries and seek to use the technology in a immoral way, but there will always be people like that.

@7183Ryan 11 жыл бұрын

He may be nervous being in front of all those people while being recorded.

@AtomPumpkin 10 жыл бұрын

They need to bring back thylacine, as wei

@dannyarafa7874 6 жыл бұрын

Not gunna lie, half expected him to get a live baby mammoth on stage at the end of the talk

@slugmanvandam 11 жыл бұрын

life, uh.. uhh. finds a way.

@turzvuk 5 жыл бұрын

обязательно делать, нам нужно это животное в сибири！

@FalconFastest123 6 жыл бұрын

Some researchers think that reviving the mammoth population could alter the local ecosystems and increase carbon absorbtion from the soil and flora changes, mitigating some of the effects of greenhouse gasses. Additionally, legal hunting permits of mammoths could further increase wildlife conservation funding. If that is true, then I see no reason why the left and right shouldnt agree to bring them back.

@superman31172 6 жыл бұрын

This would be so cool and i think if you get a reptile and a bird you just might get a dinosaur

@NatureByDhole 5 жыл бұрын

@morningglorify 11 жыл бұрын

It's probably already in the works as part of the entertainment colony on Mars.

@denizen9998 2 жыл бұрын

2021 and no mammoth yet.

@yodamane4031 Жыл бұрын

2022

@EddieD1012 11 жыл бұрын

What do you mean by inconsistencies?

@MR9966 11 жыл бұрын

@1:25 "[Elephants,] they bury their dead"

@Supernov4 11 жыл бұрын

I dont think Chernobyl was a new experiment but a practical application thanks to these experiments, which were already done in the 30s :p. And hiroshima was meant to do damage so I dont see the backfiring. No previous info about the toads so can't really say much about that, will check it out. However dont see the connection between a mammoth and a frog, other is easy to control, other is not.

@claywood8822 11 жыл бұрын

Because we can...

@ChristopherJManess 11 жыл бұрын

Understanding that the implications of an unusual species being reintroduced to the wild is chaotic, at best. The animal is large. It's impact on the environment would be large. If it is uncontrolled, it could greatly cause a negative change to the environment. It may not, but there is no rational reason to create such an uncertain scenario.