But as Paabo recounts, there have been many false positives along the way. He describes the technology clearly, almost like a recipe book: you feel you should have Neanderthal Man on the bench as you try its techniques for yourself. )ispensing quickly with such banal necessities, Paabo gets on with the cutting-edge science to which he was witness, and in some cases helped to create the astonishing development of devices that could be used to sequence DNA ever more efficiently and at lower and lower cost. There is mercifully little of the didactic treatment of the structure of DNA and genes that authors feel obliged to rehearse on such occasions. Along the way, he tells us a great eal about science and scientists. Paabo recounts his life story with a Fennoscandian frankness that some readers might find disconcerting.
Neanderthal Man, is perfectly timed, beautifully written and required reading it is a window onto the genesis of a whole new way of thinking. Now at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, Paabo pioneered and has largely led the field for the past three decades. If there is one name associated with ancient DNA, it is Svante Paabo. They can legitimately link species into skeins of common ancestry and descent. Unlike fossils, genomes can tell Stories. Not just in bits and pieces, each as enigmatic as a broken tooth or a chipped stone flake, but entire genomes. For decades we have had to make do with bones and stones, thin gruel from which to craft a narrative. REVIEWED BY HENRY GEE in Nature : The study of human origins and evolution currently stands on a cusp.
9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, tan paper-covered boards, blue paper-covered spine, gilt title, 275 pp, illustrated, fine in fine dust jacket. GENOMICS OF OUR CLOSE RELATIVES, THE NEANDERTHALS, BY LEADING EVOLUTIONIST RECIPIENT OF NOBEL PRIZE 2022.
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