Neanderthal man In search of lost genomes
Book - 2014
"What can we learn from the genes of our closest evolutionary relatives? Neanderthal Man tells the story of geneticist Svante Paabo's mission to answer that question, beginning with the study of DNA in Egyptian mummies in the early 1980s and culminating in his sequencing of the Neanderthal genome in 2009. From Paabo, we learn how 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, Paabo 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' int...eractions. 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"--
- Subjects
- Published
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New York :
Basic Books
[2014]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- ix, 275 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-259) and index.
- ISBN
- 9780465054954
9780465020836
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Neanderthal ex Machina
- Chapter 2. Mummies and Molecules
- Chapter 3. Amplifying the Past
- Chapter 4. Dinosaurs in the Lab
- Chapter 5. Human Frustrations
- Chapter 6. A Croatian Connection
- Chapter 7. A New Home
- Chapter 8. Multiregional Controversies
- Chapter 9. Nuclear Tests
- Chapter 10. Going Nuclear
- Chapter 11. Starting the Genome Project
- Chapter 12. Hard Bones
- Chapter 13. The Devil in the Details
- Chapter 14. Mapping the Genome
- Chapter 15. From Bones to Genome
- Chapter 16. Gene Flow?
- Chapter 17. First Insights
- Chapter 18. Gene Flow!
- Chapter 19. The Replacement Crowd
- Chapter 20. Human Essence?
- Chapter 21. Publishing the Genome
- Chapter 22. A Very Unusual Finger
- Chapter 23. A Neanderthal Relative
- Postscript
- Notes
- Index