Svante Pääbo is the founder of the field of ancient DNA. The director of the department of genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Pääbo has been featured in the New York Times, Newsweek, National Geographic, and The Economist, as well as on NPR, PBS, and BBC. In 2009 Time named him one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. Pääbo lives in Leipzig, Germany.
What can we learn from the genomes of our closest evolutionary relatives?
Neanderthal Man tells the story of geneticist Svante Pääbo’s mission to answer this question, and recounts his ultimately successful efforts to genetically define what makes us different from our Neanderthal cousins. 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.
We learn that Neanderthal genes offer a unique window into the lives of our hominin relatives and may hold the key to unlocking the mystery of why humans survived while Neanderthals went extinct. Drawing on genetic and fossil clues, Pääbo explores what is known about the origin of modern humans and their relationship to the Neanderthals and describes the fierce debate surrounding the nature of the two species’ interactions. His findings have not only redrawn our family tree, but recast the fundamentals of human history—the biological beginnings of fully modern Homo sapiens, the direct ancestors of all people alive today.
A riveting story about a visionary researcher and the nature of scientific inquiry, Neanderthal Man offers rich insight into the fundamental question of who we are.
既是演化遗传学家 斯万特 · 帕博 的半自传,又是关于他所从事的古遗传学、分子生物科学的浅显易懂的科普,即围绕尼安德特人 DNA 序列、尼安德特人与现代人类基因流动等等开展的研究。 但阅读之后,庸俗读者所得印象最深刻的,却是他简略提及另一位科学家的科研分析 : 与猿类...
评分Paabo教授真是太坦诚了,在津津有味的给我们普及嘧啶和嘌呤知识以外,举重若轻的谈到自己怎么讨厌一个纳粹遗老教授的,怎么被前女友劈腿的,怎么和同事太太婚外情的,以及自己作为一个私生子对生父的好奇,一般科普书你真还看不到这样冷静而娓娓道来的科学家偷情描写,就凭这个...
评分什么是尼安德特人?为什么要研究尼安德特人? 1856年,距离达尔文出版《物种起源》还有三年的时间,德国城市杜塞尔多夫以东的尼安德特河谷中,工人在清理采石场的一个小山洞的时候,发现了一个头盖骨和一些骨头。当时的工人们也没在意,他们以为这是熊的骨头。但这种骨头却越来...
评分 评分先說一下,這本書與其說是講述尼安德塔人的點滴,不如說是一份研究報告或者作者帕波自己的工作回憶錄吧。他把自己學術生涯中對於怎麼取得尼安德塔人的基因的經過說了個明白,而讀者則能從中了解一些關於這項研究的意義。 對於非理科出身的,有時候還真的覺得基因的取得跟電影...
实在是太精彩了,有爱情有友情有争分夺秒也有苦苦找寻却停滞不前,把复杂的问题讲明白需要真正的学识,把一点一滴脚踏实地的日常研究讲有趣需要一颗赤子之心,2019年的开篇就看到这样一本从各个维度都给人提升的书真是幸福的事情,好莱坞为啥还不把它拍成电影,简直就是科学界的寻宝大片!
评分实在是太精彩了,有爱情有友情有争分夺秒也有苦苦找寻却停滞不前,把复杂的问题讲明白需要真正的学识,把一点一滴脚踏实地的日常研究讲有趣需要一颗赤子之心,2019年的开篇就看到这样一本从各个维度都给人提升的书真是幸福的事情,好莱坞为啥还不把它拍成电影,简直就是科学界的寻宝大片!
评分实在是太精彩了,有爱情有友情有争分夺秒也有苦苦找寻却停滞不前,把复杂的问题讲明白需要真正的学识,把一点一滴脚踏实地的日常研究讲有趣需要一颗赤子之心,2019年的开篇就看到这样一本从各个维度都给人提升的书真是幸福的事情,好莱坞为啥还不把它拍成电影,简直就是科学界的寻宝大片!
评分实在是太精彩了,有爱情有友情有争分夺秒也有苦苦找寻却停滞不前,把复杂的问题讲明白需要真正的学识,把一点一滴脚踏实地的日常研究讲有趣需要一颗赤子之心,2019年的开篇就看到这样一本从各个维度都给人提升的书真是幸福的事情,好莱坞为啥还不把它拍成电影,简直就是科学界的寻宝大片!
评分实在是太精彩了,有爱情有友情有争分夺秒也有苦苦找寻却停滞不前,把复杂的问题讲明白需要真正的学识,把一点一滴脚踏实地的日常研究讲有趣需要一颗赤子之心,2019年的开篇就看到这样一本从各个维度都给人提升的书真是幸福的事情,好莱坞为啥还不把它拍成电影,简直就是科学界的寻宝大片!
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