Ep. 075: Cloning Mammoths

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 37.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2017

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Steven Rinella talks with paleogeneticist Dr. Beth Shapiro, along with Janis Putelis of the MeatEater crew.

Subjects Discussed: U.C. Santa Cruz and the Ewok forest; ancient DNA and the assumptions it has added to our world; black footed ferrets; the romance versus the reality of de-extinction; the volatile speed of DNA decay; mammoth tusks and sheep piss; horn-core morphology; 400 pound kiwis and 9-foot Haast's eagles; volcanoes; big-assed bison with 6-foot horn spreads; biological species concept; the persnickety sage grouse; and more.

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0:00.0	This is the meat and your podcast coming at you shirtless severely
0:13.2	boat bitten in my case underwear.
0:15.3	Let me put the meat and your podcast.
0:18.4	You can't predict anything.
0:21.4	Okay, we're recording in the UC Santa Cruz, which is which I found
0:29.4	I've been in a lot of campuses in my life, I guess.
0:33.3	I was going to say I haven't been on many, but I've been on a ton of them.
0:35.5	This is the most gorgeous campus I've ever been to.
0:37.7	It's pretty amazing.
0:38.7	Did you happen to see any Ewoks on your way out?
0:40.4	No, but it was funny because driving in here, I thought I was about to form the sentence
0:47.7	to Janus that this is like a Star Wars set.
0:50.8	And then Janus interrupted my thought to comment about a Star Wars set quality.
0:56.0	My youngest child calls it the Ewok for us.
0:58.0	We come up and he goes, it's the boom.
0:59.3	Ewok forest.
1:00.3	Can you fill up?
1:01.3	Yeah, it's like it's got to be good for your brain.
1:05.5	Really?
1:06.5	To be around these trees, I feel like.
1:08.2	I could be hopeful about that.
1:10.2	Yeah.
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