![]() Blending scientific findings with personal memoir, Neanderthal Man recounts Pääbo’s three decades of influential research into ancient DNA. In summer 2014, Pääbo’s book, Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes, was published to great acclaim. ![]() Pääbo’s work has demonstrated that Neanderthals interbred with Eurasian humans, resulting in traces of Neanderthal DNA that remain in the genomes of many humans alive today. In 2010 they succeeded in mapping the Neanderthal genome. ![]() Since developing a method of isolating and sequencing the DNA of long-extinct species, Pääbo and his lab have worked extensively on Neanderthal DNA. Svante Pääbo is a Swedish biologist and evolutionary anthropologist, best known as one of the founders of paleogenetics. ![]() He will also describe preliminary analyses of genomic features that appeared in present-day humans since their divergence from a common ancestor shared with Neanderthals and discuss how they may be functionally analyzed in the future. ![]() Pääbo will describe our current understanding of the genetic contributions of Neanderthals to present-day humans and to extinct human groups, for example the Denisovans, a related Asian group. The Neanderthal genome sequence provides unique insights into modern humans origins. The Neanderthals are the closest extinct relatives of all present-day humans. ![]()
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