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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Maya Goodfellow

‘A billionaire will pay a lot of money to shoot a recreated being’: historian Sadiah Qureshi on extinction and empire

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Sadiah Qureshi: ‘Who we think are worthy subjects of conservation [is] deeply rooted in past political projects.’ Photograph: Irina Zoteeva

Would you bring an extinct species back to life if you could? If so, which species would you pick? Prof Sadiah Qureshi has taken to asking her friends, students and complete strangers this question because, she says, their answers reveal a lot about how we understand extinction.

Some choose a dinosaur, others pick a species like the dodo, killed off by humans. Almost no one chooses a plant or insect.

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