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Neanderthal Man : In Search of Lost Genomes / Svante Pääbo.

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A preeminent geneticist hunts the Neanderthal genome to answer the biggest question of them all: what does it mean to be human?What can we learn from the genes of our closest evolutionary relatives? Neanderthal Man tells the story of geneticist Svante Pääbo's mission to answer that question, be...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Pääbo, Svante (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, [2014]
Subjects:
Neanderthals.
Human population genetics.
Genomics.
Human evolution.
Evolution (Biology)
Human genome.
Table of Contents:
  • Neanderthal ex machina
  • Mummies and molecules
  • Amplifying the past
  • Dinosaurs in the lab
  • Human frustrations
  • A Croatian connection
  • A new home
  • Multiregional controversies
  • Nuclear tests
  • Going nuclear
  • Starting the genome project
  • Hard bones
  • The devil in the details
  • Mapping the genome
  • From bones to genome
  • Gene flow?
  • First insights
  • Gene flow!
  • The replacement crowd
  • Human essence?
  • Publishing the genome
  • A very unusual finger
  • A Neanderthal relative.

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