- In the 1920s two German zoo directors began a selective breeding program to breed back the aurochs into existence from the domestic cattle that were their descendants. Their plan was based on the concept that a species is not extinct as long as all its genes are still present in a living population. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/aurochs#re-creation 88 comments science
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