16 Quotes by Hendrik Poinar

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

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

The study of evolution is an evolution in itself.

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

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

Scientists have always thought that because mammoths roamed such a huge territory - from Western Europe to Central North America - that North American woolly mammoths were a sideshow of no particular significance to the evolution of the species.

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