The ethics of reviving long extinct species

Conservation Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 354-360

  Sandler, Ronald ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biotechnology; Cloning; De extinction; Extinction; Values

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL WELFARE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CLONAL ORGANISM; ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES; EXTINCTION; REINTRODUCTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ANIMALIA;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ETHICS; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ETHICS; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84896317652     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12198     Document Type: Article

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