What Beth Shapiro has said about Woolly mammoth

1 quote · 1 episode · Oct 5, 2026

Beth Shapiro, American evolutionary biologist and Chief Science Officer at Colossal Biosciences, formerly a professor at UC Santa Cruz and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, has been quoted on Woolly mammoth once in 1 episode of Huberman Lab, most recently on October 5, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

  • Shapiro says the goal is not to replicate an individual mammoth but to engineer an elephant with the traits shared by mammoths that allow it to live in mammoth habitats.

    “that is where I'm going to focus my energy in bringing back a mammoth, which will be an elephant that is capable of living in the habitats that a mammoth lived in”

    Huberman Lab: Bringing Extinct Species Back to Life | Dr. Beth Shapiro (Oct 5, 2026) · Listen from 52:19

Episodes

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