From Pbo, we learn how Neanderthal genes offer a unique window into the lives of our hominin relatives and may. His 2014 book Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes is a highly regarded, and often very personal, account of his work. Neanderthal Man tells the story of geneticist Svante Pbo s mission to answer that question, beginning with the study of DNA in Egyptian mummies in the early 1980s and culminating in his sequencing of the Neanderthal genome in 2009. Paabo, who is a member of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, has won many awards for his groundbreaking discoveries including the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine, the Kistler Prize and the Dan David Prize. Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes, by Svante Pbo Simon Underdown on a gripping account of the reconstruction of the first genome recovered from an extinct human species ApDNA: three letters that belie the bewildering complexity of life on Earth. Paabo’s father was the biochemist Sune Bergström, who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Bengt I. He also holds a position as adjunct Professor at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan. In 1999 he founded the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany where he is still active. Paabo was appointed Professor at the University of Munich, Germany in 1990. He completed postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Zürich and also the University of California, Berkeley. Born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1955, Svante Paabo earned his PhD degree from the University of Uppsala in 1986. Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes by Svante Pbo 2.5 Paperback (Reprint) 18.
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