Mammoths Are a Huge Part of My Life. But Cloning Them Is Wrong

November 19, 2014

(The Guardian) – I’m a paleobiologist at the Natural History Museum in London, and I live, sleep and dream mammoths. I doubt that there are many people in the world who would like to see a real-life woolly mammoth as much as I do. And yet I think cloning one would be ethically flawed. Any attempt to clone a mammoth would probably require a living elephant – likely to be Asian – to act as a surrogate.