Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2025-06-17
Books mentioned on #2338 - Beth Shapiro
Beth Shapiro, Ph.D.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Lost City of Z
The Lost City of Z by David Grann is a non-fiction book detailing the British explorer Percy Fawcett and his fateful final expedition into the dangerous Amazon rainforest in search of an ancient civilization.
Discussed“The guy who one of one of the guys who that's he's the the main character in that book, the lost city of Z. He's one of the people that went there.”
Where to get it
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Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton is a classic science fiction techno-thriller about a theme park populated with resurrected dinosaurs that ultimately turn on their creators.
Discussed“And Michael Kiteon, when he wrote the book that became the movie, he credited a lab at Berkeley, Alan Wilson's group, the extinct species study group, which was the first group to show that you could get DNA in something after it died.”
Where to get it
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Next Whole Earth Catalog
Discussed“We are as gods, as Stuart Brand wrote in the whole Earth Catalog, right? And we just better get good at it.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book How to Clone a Mammoth
“Well, I I asked if I could read it because my first book, How to Clone a Mammoth, I didn't read. And I heard the audio book.”