Svante Pääbo is the founder of the field of ancient DNA. The director of the department of genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Pääbo has been featured in the New York Times, Newsweek, National Geographic, and The Economist, as well as on NPR, PBS, and BBC. In 2009 Time named him one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. Pääbo lives in Leipzig, Germany.
What can we learn from the genomes of our closest evolutionary relatives?
Neanderthal Man tells the story of geneticist Svante Pääbo's mission to answer this question, and recounts his ultimately successful efforts to genetically define what makes us different from our Neanderthal cousins. Beginning with the study of DNA in Egyptian mummies in the early 1980s and culminating in the sequencing of the Neanderthal genome in 2010, Neanderthal Man describes the events, intrigues, failures, and triumphs of these scientifically rich years through the lens of the pioneer and inventor of the field of ancient DNA.
We learn that Neanderthal genes offer a unique window into the lives of our hominin relatives and may hold the key to unlocking the mystery of why humans survived while Neanderthals went extinct. Drawing on genetic and fossil clues, Pääbo explores what is known about the origin of modern humans and their relationship to the Neanderthals and describes the fierce debate surrounding the nature of the two species' interactions. His findings have not only redrawn our family tree, but recast the fundamentals of human history—the biological beginnings of fully modern Homo sapiens, the direct ancestors of all people alive today.
A riveting story about a visionary researcher and the nature of scientific inquiry, Neanderthal Man offers rich insight into the fundamental question of who we are.
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既是演化遺傳學傢 斯萬特 · 帕博 的半自傳,又是關於他所從事的古遺傳學、分子生物科學的淺顯易懂的科普,即圍繞尼安德特人 DNA 序列、尼安德特人與現代人類基因流動等等開展的研究。 但閱讀之後,庸俗讀者所得印象最深刻的,卻是他簡略提及另一位科學傢的科研分析 : 與猿類...
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圖書標籤: 古人類學 evolution 史前史 古基因學 分子人類學 history 迴憶錄 傳記
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評分作者完整講述瞭他帶領的科研團隊,從提取尼安德特人的DNA,得到全基因組序列,並最終得齣人類曾與尼安德特人雜交並保留瞭3-5%的基因的整個研究過程和心路曆程,中間穿插瞭自己的情史、科學傢們的軼事。
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