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Dodo
Episode 4 of 5
Evolutionary biologist Ben Garrod explores some mysterious bones: Lewis Carroll and a dodo skeleton in Oxford. From 2017.
The Dodo is byword for extinction, or at least it has been. Evolutionary biologist Ben Garrod discovers how the skeletal remains of this extinct bird may hold the key to life beyond the grave and that extinction could be a thing of the past.
Producer Sarah Blunt.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2017.
Last on
Fri 13 Dec 2019
02:15
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