Respeciating Mammoths?

[Canuckster1127]

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Actually, if the YEC position is correct then it should be easier to recover viable sperm from frozen Mammoths; shouldn't it?

[sandy_mcd]

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Actually, if the YEC position is correct then it should be easier to recover viable sperm from frozen Mammoths; shouldn't it?

Not necessarily; it depends on how long the sperm is viable. If only a hundred years or so, the YEC or OEC doesn't matter. Anyhow, why are eggs more fragile than sperm ?

"the offspring would not be a mammoth but a hybrid between an elephant and a mammoth. ...
McGaughey agreed, "It is unlikely eggs from such frozen animals would survive; therefore only the sperm would be available to put into eggs from an existing and appropriate modern mammal to approximate the extinct one."

Is it just the relative size, or dependent on composition? And if eggs are generally shorter lived than sperm, then isn't it odd that women don't produce new eggs during their lifetime?

[Canuckster1127]

http://my.earthlink.net/article/top?gui ... 4357312536
Actually, if the YEC position is correct then it should be easier to recover viable sperm from frozen Mammoths; shouldn't it?

Not necessarily; it depends on how long the sperm is viable. If only a hundred years or so, the YEC or OEC doesn't matter. Anyhow, why are eggs more fragile than sperm ?

"the offspring would not be a mammoth but a hybrid between an elephant and a mammoth. ...
McGaughey agreed, "It is unlikely eggs from such frozen animals would survive; therefore only the sperm would be available to put into eggs from an existing and appropriate modern mammal to approximate the extinct one."

Is it just the relative size, or dependent on composition? And if eggs are generally shorter lived than sperm, then isn't it odd that women don't produce new eggs during their lifetime?

You're asking me?

Seems like a pretty long shot all the way around.