In 2009 Time named him one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. The director of the department of genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Paabo has been featured in the New York Times, Newsweek, National Geographic, and The Economist, as well as on NPR, PBS, and BBC. Here is a look back at his groundbreaking 2014 memoir Tabitha Powledge OctoS vante Pbo’s memoir. Svante Paabo is the founder of the field of ancient DNA. In this lecture, based on his book Neanderthal Man Svante Pbo tells the story of his mission to answer the question of what we can learn from the genes of. ‘Neanderthal Man’ Nobel Prize winner Svante Pbo revolutionized anthropology. Paabo's 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. We learn that Neanderthal genes offer a unique window into the lives of our hominid relatives and may hold the key to unlocking the mystery of why humans survived while Neanderthals went extinct. Neanderthal Man tells the story of geneticist Svante Paabo's mission to answer this question: what can we learn from the genomes of our closest evolutionary relatives? 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.
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