Matthew Cobb
Matthew Cobb is a British zoologist, science writer, and professor of zoology at the University of Manchester. He is the author of The Egg & Sperm Race: The Seventeenth-Century Scientists Who Unravelled the Secrets of Sex, Life and Growth; Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code; and The Idea of the Brain: A History, and As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age.
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De-extinction, if it is ever possible, will not be simple.