'Pääbo paints a picture of how a major scientific advance rose out of a mix of politics, persuasion, careful management, and struggles with technology and technique. 'Pääbo provides a fascinating look at how his personal life intersected with the founding of a scientific field that has revolutionized evolution.' - Science News 'Pääbo has provided us with a fabulous account of three decade of research into ancient DNA, culminating in 2010 with the publication of the Neanderthal genome.'- New York Review of Books Neanderthal Man is perfectly timed, beautifully written and required reading.'- Nature 'If there is one name associated with ancient DNA, it is Svante Pääbo. 'Pääbo provides a riveting, personal account of the development of paleogenetics and the technical revolution that made the field possible.'- Science For readers of Richard Dawkins, David Reich, and Hope Jahren, Neanderthal Man is the must-read account of how he did it. Pääbo redrew our family tree and permanently changed the way we think about who we are and how we got here. We learn that Neanderthal genes offer a unique window into the lives of our ancient relatives and may hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of where language came from as well as why humans survived while Neanderthals went extinct. 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, Svante Pääbo. Neanderthal Man tells the riveting personal and scientific story of the quest to use ancient DNA to unlock the secrets of human evolution. Description A preeminent geneticist, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in medicine, hunts the Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes to answer the biggest question of them all: how did our ancestors become human?

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