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I really don't think we should bring back mammoths; they went extinct naturally and wouldn't be adept for modern habitats. We should focus on more recent species whose extinctions are caused by humans.
Humans didn't hunt them to extinction, though; the changing climate during the ice age damaged their populations massively. While humans hunting them didn't help matters, they likely would have gone extinct even without them.