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Lecture focuses on DNA clues into large mammal extinction
Tuesday, April 24, 2012, 4:30 p.m.
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Friend Center Auditorium
The extinction of large mammals will be the subject of the lecture "What Killed the Giant Mammals? Insights From Ancient DNA" at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 24, in the Friend Center Auditorium. Speaker Beth Shapiro, an associate professor of biology at the University of California-Santa Cruz, specializes in ancient DNA and the genetics of Ice Age plants and animals.