I've had this idea for a while, and while I'm certainly not a scientist of any kind (I haven't even started college yet), I've been thinking: Could recreating abiogenesis be the key to de-extinction? If we managed to discover the routes of life (Which we seem to be getting closer to), would it be possible for us to replicate what used to take millions of years in a laboratory using technology grounded in known science, and could we use this process to create replicas of life that existed long ago? Obviously, we wouldn't start with dinosaurs, that'd probably be a few hundred or thousand years down the line. But could we perhaps start to gradually create more and more complex life, starting with micro-organisms and then moving onto more primitive macroscopic organisms, such as those found in the Cambrian Period?
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