PBS Features Vincent Lynch’s Elephantoid Genome Research
Vincent Lynch, associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, is cited in a recent episode of PBS Eonstitled “How to Build a Woolly Mammoth (But Should We?).”
In the segment, host Blake de Pastino explores the evolutionary science behind the woolly mammoth and what it might take to bring one back. “In the quest to understand how evolution basically built the woolly mammoth,” de Pastino says, “we may have found the blueprints for building them ourselves.”
Lynch’s research on the elephantoid genome plays a key role in the discussion, offering insight into the genetic pathways that shaped mammoths and their modern relatives.
