Back Quote by Hendrik Poinar

Nuclear DNA encodes all the proteins and enzymes that make you you, basically.

— Hendrik Poinar

I'm not sure the Russians would be happy that their iconic wooly mammoth has North American origins.

— Hendrik Poinar

The study of evolution is an evolution in itself.

— Hendrik Poinar

You can go into caves, and they can maintain constant conditions of temperature and humidity over long periods of time, even though the outside…

— Hendrik Poinar

Scientists have always thought that because mammoths roamed such a huge territory - from Western Europe to Central North America - that North American…

— Hendrik Poinar

When I was a young boy, I used to gaze through the microscope of my father at the insects in amber that he kept…

— Hendrik Poinar

There is no good scientific reason to bring back an extinct species. Why would one bring them back? To put them in a theme…

— Hendrik Poinar

Typically, there's a drive in science to do something just to say you've done it.

— Hendrik Poinar

Every outbreak across the globe today stems from a descendant of the medieval plague.

— Hendrik Poinar

I laughed when Steven Spielberg said that cloning extinct animals was inevitable. But I'm not laughing anymore, at least about mammoths. This is going…

— Hendrik Poinar

Theres no environment I can think of that would have remained constant enough to preserve dinosaur DNA.

— Hendrik Poinar

We know African and Asian elephants can interbreed, and they're separated by 5 million to 6 million years.

— Hendrik Poinar