Bringing Back Mammoths and Dodos*
Bringing Back Mammoths and Dodos*  
Podcast: What's Your Problem?
Published On: Thu Oct 10 2024
Description: *Or at least, sort of bringing back mammoths and dodos.Beth Shapiro is the chief scientific officer at Colossal Biosciences and the author of How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction. Beth's problem is this: How do you use the tools of modern biology – and hundreds of millions of dollars – to bring back species that have been extinct for centuries? And on another level, Beth’s problem is explaining to the world what it really means (and doesn’t mean) to bring back an extinct species.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.