Drugstore Geneticist

I suspect that not everybody in the audience is a geneticist.

And being a geneticist, I'm always interested to look at DNA and mutations.

Now I'm not a geneticist, so I'm not going to pretend to understand the genetics.

But the geneticist Professor Steve Jones describes how Unilever actually did solve this problem trial and error, variation and selection.

So that was the book. And so, from that moment on, I wanted to be a geneticist understand the gene and, through that, understand life.

So if we can tell the gender of the shark before we sample it, we can tell the geneticist this was taken from a male or a female.

Barricelli, he came to do what we now call, really, artificial life, trying to see if, in this artificial universe he was a viral geneticist, way, way, way ahead of his time.

All humans share some common bits of DNA, passed down to us from our African ancestors. Geneticist Spencer Wells talks about how his Genographic Project will use this shared DNA to figure out how we are in all our diversity truly connected.

Sharing the results of a massive, worldwide study, geneticist Svante Pääbo shows the DNA proof that early humans mated with Neanderthals after we moved out of Africa. He also shows how a tiny bone from a baby finger was enough to identify a whole new humanoid species.