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Currently Playing: The Strange DNA of the last mammoths

If you are interested in having a career with purpose click here for their free career guide https://www.80000hours.org/stefanmilo (also everything they do is free forever) 10,000 years ago the last mammoths to walk the earth were trapped on Wrangel island, northern Siberia. New genetic insights reveals, how many were trapped, how their population grew and perhaps even how they became extinct. I chatted to geneticst Marianne Dehasque about her fascinating research into the dna of the last mammoths. Sources: Temporal dynamics of woolly mammoth genome erosion prior to extinction Dehasque, Marianne et al. Cell, Volume 187, Issue 14, 3531 - 3540.e13 Huge thanks to my generous patrons https://www.patreon.com/stefanmilo Watch my videos Ad free only on Nebula https://go.nebula.tv/stefanmilo


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