The ‘peculiar’ history behind science’s race to bring extinct tortoises back to life

Upon the very islands that inspired Charles Darwin to develop the theory of natural selection, an international team of scientists and conservationists has undertaken a first-of-its-kind effort to revive two extinct tortoise species – not using high-tech genetic engineering, but by breeding living creatures related to the ones now gone.
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