So how would a hypotheticals setup to undo that kind of genetic "damage" look like?<p>First step would be a simulator that simulates gestation to specimen and is capable to present afflicted areas compared to another specimen.<p>Now we take the genetic material and put it under version control which is kind of hard, as we do not have any but the latest commits.<p>We do have other projects though that forked of long ago.<p>Now we write unittests identifying aging in the specimen.<p>So how do you reconstruct a genetic history if all you have is geology, paleonthology. I have no idea, but Ai could give us several drafts.<p>There the problems just starts though. Genes that go fallow might have contributed by absence to important traits like brains over brawns.<p>Assuming the genetic git with its unittests identitys the culprits, what would be needed next would be a simulated parallel evolution to recreate the specimen while keeping the changes.<p>Its a process that would produce the DNA of a mammal similar species with the aging characteristics of a lizzard. It's also several Manhatten projects worth of work..<p>And it would be a different species, no patches, my guess would be also very different psyche. Predated mammalian traits are what make us human, anxious, social animals, aware of mortality till it hurts.