What happens when we make the world in our own image?
Our earliest stone tools are related to modern genetic engineering tools like CRISPR
Produced in partnership with ASU Center for Science and the Imagination
Reanimation! is a seven-part series created by seven animation teams and 12 scientists, writers, engineers, physicists, and an archaeologist, on the lasting impact of Shelley’s famous work.
Each episode waxes poetic about different scientific, ethical, and philosophical domains and the lessons we’ve collectively learned from Dr. Frankenstein’s mistakes and triumphs.
Have you ever wondered about the evolution of human tool use? How are Paleolithic stone tools related, cognitively, to the development of genetic engineering tools like CRISPR? In the fourth episode, Tools of Our Own, Genevieve Dewar, a paleoanthropologist and archaeologist at the University of Toronto, and Kate Krueger, a molecular biologist and former research director at the nonprofit New Harvest, explain some of the larger implications of our desire to mold the world around us. Wild and woolly stop-motion animation by Amia Yokoyama with sound by Skillbard.
- Narrated by Kate Krueger, molecular biologist; and Genevieve Dewar, paleoanthropologist and archaeologist
- Directed and Animated by Amia Yokoyama
- Sound and Music by Skillbard
- Producer Harriet Bailey
- Senior Producer Nadja Oertelt
- Executive Producers Ed Finn and Bob Beard
- A Co-Production of Massive Science and Plympton
- Produced for the Frankenstein Bicentennial Project at Arizona State University
- In partnership with the MIT Press and the MIT Media Lab
- Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation