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Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz show on IHart Video.

My guest today is Colin Wright.

Colin is an evolutionary biologist and a fellow at Manhattan Institute.

So nice to have you on, Colin.

Thanks for having me on. I appreciate it.

So are there many evolutionary biologists at think tanks, or are you the whole ballgame?

That's a good question.

I might be one of the, if not the first ones that I know of.

So I started working at the Manhattan Institute three years ago, two and a half, actually.

I do know that my friend Carol Hoeven, who's also an evolutionary biologist, she just got a job at the American Enterprise Institute.

Okay, so there's two of you.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So there's at least two of us.

But yeah, that's actually interesting.

I don't think we really played a role in think tanks until originally.

There is no use for our services outside of a university setting.

Yeah, that's actually, that's interesting.

So what's the crossover there?

What brought you to Manhattan Institute?

How does an evolutionary biologist end up at a think tank?

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