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This Scientist Wants To Sequence The Genomes of 8,000 Endangered Animals Before They’re Gone

This Scientist Wants To Sequence The Genomes of 8,000 Endangered Animals Before They’re Gone

by The Daily Eye Team March 25 2017, 5:22 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 30 secs

Erich Jarvis has a selfish reason for wanting to sequence the genomes of thousands of endangered animals. He needs a bunch of these species to survive long enough for him to study them. "For me this is the moral thing to do," said Jarvis, a researcher at Rockefeller University, who studies how the brain processes sound, music, and language. He uses birdsongs to understand how these processes evolved. "From my own scientific perspective, a number of the species I'm most interested in studying for my evolution of language research include species that are going extinct."

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