Neanderthal Man
by Svante Pääbo · first published 2016
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Readers who are interested in this kind of thing may be interested in the new book by Svante Pääbo, Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes.[1] Pääbo was the first researcher to figure out how to sequence DNA from ancient human beings, starting with Egyptian mummies and eventually leading to the complete sequencing…
on “Extinct Humans Passed High-Altitude Gene to Tibetans” ↗I would recommend this book by evolutionary anthropologist Svante Pääbo. Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes https://www.amazon.com/Neanderthal-Man-Search-Lost-Genomes/d...
on “Neanderthals glued their tools together” ↗Speaking of which I would advise : Svante Pääbo Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes then even better imho The Naked Neanderthal by Ludovic Slimak. After these books I spent many hours listening to the full courses of Jean-Jacques Hublin, chaire Paléoanthropologie…
on “How to sequence your DNA for <$2k” ↗…or resources that look to bring a layman up to speed on the changes to and current state of the field, similar to what Mann’s 1491 did for pre-Columbian studies back in the day? I’ve turned up Pääbo’s Neanderthal Man before, but it was focused on genetics, and could be quite technical.
on “50k-year-old three-ply cord fragment found at Neanderthal site” ↗…ill-defined biological concept that it’s a sterile intellectual exercise arguing over it; and if they’d gone with, say, Homo altaiensis rather than Denisovans, it would’ve been extremely hard to take it back (“Neanderthal Man,” 2014, Ch. 23). Considering Paabo secured funding from the German government for a brand-new research institute in ancient human DNA and related subjects, including the right to decide what city to…
on “More evidence that Neanderthals were ‘absorbed’ by humans, not wiped out” ↗…Y-chromosome study ends. [1] https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2022/paabo/facts/ [2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35749414-who-we-are-and-... [3] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19243883-neanderthal-man
on “Aboriginal Australian genomes reveal Indian ancestry” ↗