Their DNA is the Crystal Ball to the Future of Horses

#961B: Internationally celebrated DNA specialist Ludovic Orlando wrote “Horses: a 4,000-Year Genetic Journey Across the World,”  illuminating his collaboration with hundreds of other scientists worldwide to discover where, when and how horses have been part of the human story, but also how science will write the future of The Horse — whether through the (ongoing) cloning of whole strings of Argentinian polo ponies or the manipulation of the DNA of English Thoroughbred race horses.