To celebrate the paperback release of Life As We Made It , The NeoJurassic Podcast returns from a lengthy hiatus to share a conversation with the book's author Dr Beth Shapiro.

"From the first dog to the first beefalo, from farming to CRISPR, the human history of remaking nature When the 2020 Nobel Prize was awarded to the inventors of CRISPR, the revolutionary gene-editing tool, it underlined our amazing and apparently novel powers to alter nature. But as biologist Beth Shapiro argues in Life as We Made It, this phenomenon isn’t new. Humans have been reshaping the world around us for ages, from early dogs to modern bacteria modified to pump out insulin. Indeed, she claims, reshaping nature—resetting the course of evolution, ours and others’—is the essence of what our species does. In exploring our evolutionary and cultural history, Shapiro finds a course for the future. If we have always been changing nature to help us survive and thrive, then we need to avoid naive arguments about how we might destroy it with our meddling, and instead ask how we can meddle better. Brilliant and insightful, Life as We Made It is an essential book for the decades to come."

Theme park journalist, podcaster, and Jurassic fan, Alicia Stella is our guide for a detailed tour through the many proposed jurassic attractions that never quite made the light of day as well as some interesting history on the ones that did. Later Alicia & Bri share their own hopes and expectations for what the future may hold for 'Jurassic' theme park attractions.

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Best in Slot

Professional Gamer & YouTuber, Conor Dalgarno, is basically living The John Hammond Dream building beautiful dinosaur parks & elaborate zoos for a living. No less than 762,000 subscribers return again and again to his YouTube channel, Best in Slot, as Conor develops countless parks, zoos & habitats across games like Jurassic World Evolution, Planet Zoo & the upcoming Prehistoric Kingdom. Conor shares his experience with just about every dinosaur game created, the third season of Jurassic World : Camp Cretaceous, and what he's looking forward to in the future of dinosaur games and beyond.