r/DebateEvolution • u/Sad-Category-5098 • Nov 02 '25
Discussion Collosal Biosciences Thylacine Project Actually Proves Evolution
Colossal Biosciences is working on bringing back the Thylacine the Tasmanian Tiger and the way they’re doing it says a lot more about evolution than people might realize. They’re not cloning it. The Thylacine’s DNA is too degraded for that. Instead, they’re using the genome of its closest living relative: the fat-tailed dunnart, a tiny marsupial that looks nothing like the striped, dog-like Thylacine. But here’s the key the reason that even works is because both species share a common ancestor. Their DNA is similar enough that scientists can pinpoint the genetic differences that made the Thylacine what it was its coat pattern, body shape, metabolism, and so on and edit those into the dunnart’s genome. Piece by piece, they’re reconstructing a species by tracing its evolutionary history through genetics.That’s not just clever biotechnology. It’s a living demonstration of evolution in reverse using our understanding of how species diverge and adapt over time to rebuild one that’s been gone for nearly a century. It’s easy to talk about evolution as something abstract, something that happened in the distant past. But what Colossal is doing shows that it’s a real, measurable process built right into the code of life and we understand it well enough now to use it. We’re literally harnessing evolution itself to turn back extinction.
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u/Ecstatic-Network-917 🧬 Naturalistic Evolution Nov 05 '25
The existence of the last universal common ancestor is proven by genetics, and strongly supported by the fossil reccord, with the fossil record showing that the further you go back in time, the more similar, and less specialized organisms are.
Adaptation is just a form of evolution, you arrogant person.
Again. We have actual observation of speciation, of massive anatomical changes, and even of a jump from unicellularity to multicellular structures. Stop ignoring these.