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NEANDERTHAL MAN - SVANTE PÄÄBO KARTONIERT (TB)

A preeminent geneticist hunts the Neanderthal genome to answer the biggest question of them
all: what does it mean to be human?ONE OF AMAZON'S TOP 100 BOOKS OF 2014 Neanderthal Man tells
the story of geneticist Svante Pääbo's mission to answer this question: what can we learn from
the genomes of our closest evolutionary relatives? 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 hominid relatives and may
hold the key to unlocking the mystery of why humans survived while Neanderthals went extinct.
Pääbo's 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.

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