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Bringing Extinct Species Back to Life | Dr. Beth Shapiro

October 5, 2026·2h 15m·7-min readconversationalscience
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Dr. Beth Shapiro, a leading evolutionary biologist and chief scientific officer at Colossal Biosciences, discusses the science and ethics of de-extinction—reviving extinct species like the woolly mammoth, dodo, and dire wolf—not as a novelty, but as a means to develop genetic tools that c

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Beth Shapiro

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Beth ShapiroAndrew Huberman

Books

How to Clone a Mammoth

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Colossal Biosciences

Research & Papers

First ancient DNA paper from 1984

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BiologyClimate ChangeEcologyEvolutionGeneticsNeuroscienceRenewable EnergyScientific Method

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