The 2017 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate at the American Museum of Natural History with host Neil deGrasse Tyson and a panel of experts for a lively debate about the merits and shortcomings of a provocative idea: de-extinction.
Biologists today have the knowledge, the tools, and the ability to influence the evolution of life on Earth. Do we have an obligation to bring back species that human activities may have rendered extinct? Does the technology exist to do so? Join Tyson and the panel for a lively debate about the merits and shortcomings of this provocative idea.
2017 Asimov Debate panelists:
Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard University, and MIT
Hank Greely
Director of the Center for Law and the Biosciences, Stanford University
Gregory Kaebnick
Scholar, The Hastings Center; Editor, Hastings Center Report
Ross MacPhee
Curator, Department of Mammalogy, Division of Vertebrate Zoology; Professor, Richard Gilder Graduate School
Beth Shapiro
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz
In the late Dr. Isaac Asimov memory, the Hayden Planetarium is the host of the annual Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate since 2001. Click here to view previous panels.
