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Originally Posted by [MM]IKKE However, my point actually was: these creatures didn't live for the past 4,000 years. Therefore, they didn't get any genetic evolution since then. In the past 4,000 years, tons of new viruses and bacteria proliferated. Due to evolution, mainly viruses who are better than their precedor. If they made these mammoths alive again, their immunity system wouldn't recognise all these new viruses, and therefore not be resistant against a lot of those. They'd get a lot of diseases this way. If they are still young at the moment they get it, chances are quite high they die.

4 thousand years are nothing compared to the 4 million years they existed before that.

You think human body recognizes all viruses and is immune to every new virus which pops up?