Bringing Back an Extinct Tortoise

Guest: Gisella Caccone, PhD, Senior Research Scientist, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Director of DNA Analysis Facility, Director of YIBS MSCG Laboratory, Yale University When Charles Darwin visited the Galapagos Islands, the unique species he found there inspired his theory of evolution. Now, researchers are using the principles of evolution to bring back Galapagos tortoises that humans drove to extinction.