At the beginning of the year, the company behind the public effort to de-extinct the wooly mammoth announced it will also be de-extincting the dodo. The announcement stirred up a lot of excitement and questions about whether we can 鈥� or should 鈥� bring back species once they鈥檙e gone.
So this hour we're talking about de-extinction! We鈥檒l hear about what it takes to bring back extinct animals, efforts to build a safety net for plants that might go extinct in the future, and walk through some fun de-extinction thought experiments.
GUESTS:
- Dr. Helen Pilcher: a science and comedy writer with a PhD in cell biology who wrote
- Ben Lamm: CEO of the de-extinction company , which he co-founded with George Church.
- Carlos de la Rosa: President and CEO of the
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