Episode #565
Trevor Valle
Books mentioned
On the Origin of Species
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Paleontologist and host Trevor Valle discusses fieldwork on a preserved woolly mammoth in Siberia, including fossil discoveries at construction sites and encounters with reindeer-herding communities. He and Joe Rogan examine evolution and its evidence, the ethics and technical challenges of cloning extinct animals, and how scientific inquiry relates to personal beliefs and competing claims.
What they talked about
- Paleontology job site mitigation in California
- Discovering a 5-million-year-old whale in downtown LA
- Frozen woolly mammoth carcasses in Siberia
- Tusk hunting and black market in Russia
- Debating evolution with creationists online
- Cloning extinct animals and ethical concerns
- Mammoth Unearthed documentary on Nat Geo
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