Neanderthal. In search of disappeared genomes

The Swedish geneticist Svante PEABO has long cherished a dream that seemed unrealistic: to highlight DNA from the Egyptian mummies and, thus, to “get to know each other” with people who lived thousands of years ago. The youthful obsession led him with a thorny way - through a painful scientific search, the struggle for the purity of experiments and intellectual honesty, diplomatic maneuvers and bureaucratic wars ... and led much further into the depths of centuries, to read the Neanderthal genome, radically changing all the ideas and about the Neanderthals themselves, And about their interaction with the ancestors of modern humanity.
"Neanderthal" is not only a fascinating story about a sensational breakthrough, but also a document that fixes an important milestone in the history of science: the formation of a paleo -genomic, a new discipline that allows the method of study of ancient DNA to restore the picture of the evolution of our species in such details, What we did not dare and dream of before.
About the author:
Svante PEABO - Swedish biologist, specialist in evolutionary genetics, member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences. Nowadays, the director of the Department of Genetics at the Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology of the Max Planck Society in Leipzig. In 2006, his working group announced the plan for the complete decoding of the Neanderthal genome. In 2010, sensational results were published in the Science Scientific Journal.
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The name of Svante PEABO is almost a synonym for the study of ancient DNA as a scientific discipline. His Neanderthal is very timely, necessary for all of us and also a beautifully written book