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Evolutionary biologist Ben Garrod presents anthropological detective stories.

Bone Stories: Series 1: Dodo

Dodo

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Ben Garrod reveals how the dodo might be brought back from extinction.

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.

Bone Stories: Series 1

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