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Professor Greger Larsen – The Story of the Story of Domestication
October 15 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Greger Larson received his bachelor’s degree in 1996 from Claremont McKenna College, a small liberal arts college in California. He read just about everything Stephen J Gould ever wrote over the following three years while he wandered the deserts of Turkmenistan and worked for an environmental consultancy in Azerbaijan. Deciding that evolution was cooler than oil, Greger studied at Oxford and the University of Colorado before receiving his PhD in Zoology in 2006. He then spent two years in Uppsala, Sweden on a European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) postdoctoral fellowship before starting a job in the department of archaeology at Durham University. Greger then moved to Oxford University in 2014 to become the Director of the Palaeogenomics and Bio-Archaeology Research Network where he is continuing his focus on the use of ancient DNA to study the pattern and process of domestication. He rarely wonders what his salary would be had he stuck to oil.