#2338 - Beth Shapiro

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Beth Shapiro

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Beth Shapiro, Ph.D., is an evolutionary molecular biologist and Chief Science Officer at Colossal Biosciences. She’s also the author of “Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined―and Redefined―Nature.” https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/beth-shapiro/life-as-we-made-it/9781541644151 https://colossal.com/team/beth-shapiro-ph-d/

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0:12Beth Shapiro’s background in ancient DNA, academia, and fieldwork in Siberia and Alaska

11:15Siberian subsistence life and Beth Shapiro's chaotic mammoth field expedition

29:58Ancient DNA, contamination, and breakthroughs from PCR to Neanderthal genomes

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Beth Shapiro, How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction

Beth Shapiro, Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined—and Redefined—Nature

David Grann, The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Histoire Naturelle, Vol. 5: The Theory of American Degeneracy

Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park: A Novel

Stewart Brand, The Whole Earth Catalog

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Plans to Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth and Other Extinct Animals

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Beth Shapiro Responds to Criticism Over the Dire Wolf Being Brought Back

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