Only then (10-15 years later) did we go back to studying ancient humans, particularly the Neanderthals. Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes MP3 CD Import, 12 January 2016 by Svante Paabo (Author), Dennis Holland (Narrator) 506 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 670.74 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover from 1,866.00 4 Used from 1,866.00 Paperback 1,459. Over many years I developed the techniques using extinct animals. I shifted from working with ancient human remains to extinct animals, because if you study mammoths and find something elephant-like that is not identical to elephants, you can be pretty certain that you have the right DNA sequence. It has become clear that a dust particle in a room is largely skin fragments from humans, and a single dust particle can contain much more DNA than the half-gram of bone that I was trying to extract it from. In hindsight I realized that it was all confirmation of DNA from me. Take us through how you started to get samples and do sequencing in a place that no one had been before.ĭr Pääbo: I started with Egyptian mummies, working at my lab bench like all other graduate students, and got some DNA sequences out of them. Dr Topol: You happen to have a little bit of science in your genes, with your father being a Nobel laureate and your mother being a biochemist.
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