Re: dinosaur cloning

["Berislav Krzic" <veselinka.stanisavac@siol.net>]

Dwight.Stewart@VLSI.com
wrote:

<Hungarian scientists did this in a minor way decades ago, without
computers.  They used
selective breeding to retrograde to a primitive bovine type from
modern cattle.  They simply
bred for the more basal characteristics in each generation.  It took
10 years or so to come
up with a basal bovine.  Maybe not THE basal bovine, but much more
primitive.>


Yes. It wasn't THE basal bovine.They just got the breed that looks like _Bos
primigenius_  ( Tur ), they couldn't resurrect the species exterminated in
Medieval times.

Berislav Krzic
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