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- Neanderthal Man : in Search of Lost Genomes
- Publication Name
- Neanderthal Man
- Title
- Neanderthal Man
- Subtitle
- In Search of Lost Genomes
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- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0465054951
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- 9780465054954
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- Basic Books
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- Biography & Autobiography, Science, Social Science
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- Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Anthropology / Physical, Anthropology / General, Science & Technology
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- 24/03/2015
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- 2015
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- English
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- 2015
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- 288 Pages
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ONE OF AMAZON'S TOP 100 BOOKS OF 2014 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. 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. 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.
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Neanderthal Man : in Search of Lost Genomes
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Trade Paperback
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English
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Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Anthropology / Physical, Anthropology / General, Science & Technology
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2015
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Biography & Autobiography, Science, Social Science
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288 Pages
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"In Neanderthal Man , Svante Pbo offers readers a front-row seat to the still-unfolding understanding of this enigmatic human ancestor by recounting his own years of work.... Pbo quite candidly relays the doubts and challenges that accompanied more than a decade of discovery--a labor that elevated Neanderthals from troglodyte brutes inhabiting a dead-end branch of the human family tree to a complex species that interbred with other hominins, including Homo sapiens. Never one to shy away from provocative statements or even-more-provocative research, Pbo gives what appears to be an honest and open account of his pioneering studies of Neanderthal genetics." -- The Scientist "Evolutionary biologists are, general, pretty interesting people to talk to, but rarely would you describe their lives as thrilling. The notion of combining an autobiography with a popular science book may therefore not seem especially compelling. However, in this case both the author and the science are quite extraordinary, and inextricably linked." -- Evening Standard (UK), "[A]n excellent glimpse into how modern science proceeds as a global, social activity.... P__bo has to navigate through collaborators and competitors (including people who spend time in both categories), guardians of the bones he wants to grind into dust, touchy issues of nationalism, and more. In the process, he helps found a new research institute and builds a team dedicated to studying ancient DNA. If anyone doubts that science is a social activity, the doubt won't survive reading this book.... P__bo paints a picture of how a major scientific advance rose out of a mix of politics, persuasion, careful management, and struggles with technology and technique. For that alone, it's valuable." -- Ars Technica "If there is one name associated with ancient DNA, it is Svante P__bo.... P__bo pioneered and has largely led the field for the past three decades. His book, Neanderthal Man , is perfectly timed, beautifully written and required reading--it is a window onto the genesis of a whole new way of thinking." -- Nature, "Scientific understanding of earlier humans is fast evolving. For the nonce, this is a go-to volume on the subject for serious readers."-- Library Journal, "Pääbo paints a picture ofhow a major scientific advance rose out of a mix of politics, persuasion,careful management, and struggles with technology and technique. For thatalone, it's valuable."-- Ars Technica, "[T]his book is a vibrant testimonial to what might be the greatest creation of modern humans: the scientific method." -- Salon, "I came for the cavemen, but I stayed for the geeky nail-biter of a story about doing historic science in a climate of fierce international competition and rapid technological innovation.... Truth be told, DNA sequencing is pretty wonky stuff, but perhaps it's P__bo's own passionate investment in the undertaking that makes his story so exciting to read about; Neanderthal Man does for paleogenetics something like what Steven Spielberg did for the legislative process in Lincoln .... [T]his book is a vibrant testimonial to what might be the greatest creation of modern humans: the scientific method." -- Laura Miller, Salon "Much of P__bo's book is devoted to the details of the difficulties [of extracting DNA from ancient bones], and how they were overcome by an awesome combination of technology, ingenuity and persistence. It's a story of how modern high-concept science is done, shot through with the crackle of problem-solving and the hum of project tension, with occasional riffs of annoyance about major scientific journals and people who want dinosaur DNA." -- The Independent (UK), "If P��bo weren't such a good storyteller, the book might have bogged down with descriptions of things like the different techniques of polymerase chain reaction, and all it takes to build a clean lab. But he's a clever enough writer to keep the reader's attention with a fast-paced story and wonderful details." -- 23andMe blog "This is a fascinating story of how modern science and especially computer technology is opening vistas onto our prehistoric history." -- The Explorers Journal "P��bo provides a fascinating look at how his personal life intersected with the founding of a scientific field that has revolutionized evolution." -- Science News, "Svante Pbo's Neanderthal Man is the incredible personal story of one man's quest for our human origins using the latest genome sequence tools. Pbo takes us through his exciting journey to first extract DNA from ancient bones then sequence it to give us the first real glance at our human ancestors, and showing ultimately that early humans and Neanderthals interbred to produce modern humans. This is science at its best and reinforces that contained in each of our genomes is the history of humanity." -- J. Craig Venter, Chairman and President, J. Craig Venter Institute "Svante Pbo, a major architect in the study of paleo-DNA, has written a personal, insightful and sometimes very frank book about his relentless quest to understand the human family tree. The first scholar to extract genetic material from Neanderthals, Pbo writes candidly about the seemingly insurmountable trials and tribulations he had to overcome to give us intriguing new insights into human origins." -- Donald Johanson, Founding Director of the Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University, and author of Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, "I came for the cavemen, but I stayed for the geeky nail-biter of a story about doing historic science in a climate of fierce international competition and rapid technological innovation.... Truth be told, DNA sequencing is pretty wonky stuff, but perhaps it's Pbo's own passionate investment in the undertaking that makes his story so exciting to read about; Neanderthal Man does for paleogenetics something like what Steven Spielberg did for the legislative process in Lincoln .... [T]his book is a vibrant testimonial to what might be the greatest creation of modern humans: the scientific method." -- Laura Miller, Salon "Much of Pbo's book is devoted to the details of the difficulties [of extracting DNA from ancient bones], and how they were overcome by an awesome combination of technology, ingenuity and persistence. It's a story of how modern high-concept science is done, shot through with the crackle of problem-solving and the hum of project tension, with occasional riffs of annoyance about major scientific journals and people who want dinosaur DNA." -- The Independent (UK), "The world's foremost expert on recoveringancient DNA tells the inside story of what it took to reconstruct theNeanderthal genome."-- The Christian Century, Essential Books on Evolution and HumanOrigins, "Pbo's tale describes a process approaching the Platonic Idea of contemporary science: a lot of very smart people collaboratively working their butts off, persisting through mistakes and failures and numbingly repetitive but essential tasks and political machinations and technological inadequacies because they believe the Truth is Out There. And finally finding it. Others have not yet weighed in, and this being top-level and therefore monumentally competitive science, contrarians may well emerge. But if the Neanderthal genome project was anything like what Pbo describes, we are damn lucky." -- Tabitha Powledge, Genetic Literacy Project "Pbo passionately chronicles his personal story, from graduate school through the culmination of the Neanderthal project 30 years later, and the scientific implications of this exciting research.... In accessible prose, Pbo presents the science so that laypersons will understand the nature and import of his work. But it's his discussion of the scientific process that steals the show.... He discusses what it took to build a case tight enough to convince even the most skeptical of colleagues and he goes on to demonstrate that scientific knowledge is cumulative and ever-evolving." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review, "In Neanderthal Man , Svante P��bo offers readers a front-row seat to the still-unfolding understanding of this enigmatic human ancestor by recounting his own years of work.... P��bo quite candidly relays the doubts and challenges that accompanied more than a decade of discovery--a labor that elevated Neanderthals from troglodyte brutes inhabiting a dead-end branch of the human family tree to a complex species that interbred with other hominins, including Homo sapiens. Never one to shy away from provocative statements or even-more-provocative research, P��bo gives what appears to be an honest and open account of his pioneering studies of Neanderthal genetics." -- The Scientist "Evolutionary biologists are, general, pretty interesting people to talk to, but rarely would you describe their lives as thrilling. The notion of combining an autobiography with a popular science book may therefore not seem especially compelling. However, in this case both the author and the science are quite extraordinary, and inextricably linked." -- Evening Standard (UK), "This is a fascinating story of how modern science and especially computer technology is opening vistas onto our prehistoric history."-- The Explorers Journal, "[A] revealing glimpse into the inner workings of scientific research.... Since Neanderthals are our closest evolutionary relatives, the author's work in decoding Neanderthal DNA gives scientists a way to understand how we differ genetically from them and offers the opportunity to learn what genetic changes have made humans unique on this planet." -- Kirkus Reviews "The tale P__bo tells is largely one of technological improvement enabling the elimination of contamination and speeding up the sequencing process. Secondarily, it's about creating scientific foundations and multinational scientific cooperation to pursue the promises of research into ancient DNA, including that of nonhuman species as well as hominins." -- Booklist "It is a rare thing to read about an important development in science by its principal innovator, written in the spirit and style in which the research unfolded. Neanderthal Man is a dispatch from the front, and if you want to learn how real science is really done, I suggest you read it." -- Edward O. Wilson, University Research Professor, Emeritus, Harvard University, " Neanderthal Man opens with this episode [when Pbo and his team first sequenced Neanderthal DNA], and it's a nice touch by Pbo, bringing us straight to the moment when his long, painstaking effort to tease ancient DNA out of hominin fossils yielded its first dramatic results." -- David Quammen, Harper's "Pbo has provided us with a fabulous account of three decade of research into ancient DNA, culminating in 2010 with the publication of the Neanderthal genome.... Pbo's book has to be compared to The Double Helix (1968), James Watson's brilliant but controversial account of how the structure of DNA was discovered. When taken together they provide an insight into how bio-molecular science has both changed and remained much the same during the last half-century. Both are strong personal accounts of scientific discovery, exposing how science is driven as much by passion, ambition, and competition as by rational thought and the sharing of knowledge. In both books the reader is gripped by life stories of far greater interest than those in may novels before being plunged into passages of near-unintelligible science (despite much simplification) that are nevertheless strangely enthralling." -- Steven Mithen, New York Review of Books, "If P__bo weren't such a good storyteller, the book might have bogged down with descriptions of things like the different techniques of polymerase chain reaction, and all it takes to build a clean lab. But he's a clever enough writer to keep the reader's attention with a fast-paced story and wonderful details." -- 23andMe blog "This is a fascinating story of how modern science and especially computer technology is opening vistas onto our prehistoric history." -- The Explorers Journal "P__bo provides a fascinating look at how his personal life intersected with the founding of a scientific field that has revolutionized evolution." -- Science News, "Svante P��bo's Neanderthal Man is the incredible personal story of one man's quest for our human origins using the latest genome sequence tools. P��bo takes us through his exciting journey to first extract DNA from ancient bones then sequence it to give us the first real glance at our human ancestors, and showing ultimately that early humans and Neanderthals interbred to produce modern humans. This is science at its best and reinforces that contained in each of our genomes is the history of humanity." -- J. Craig Venter, Chairman and President, J. Craig Venter Institute "Svante P��bo, a major architect in the study of paleo-DNA, has written a personal, insightful and sometimes very frank book about his relentless quest to understand the human family tree. The first scholar to extract genetic material from Neanderthals, P��bo writes candidly about the seemingly insurmountable trials and tribulations he had to overcome to give us intriguing new insights into human origins." -- Donald Johanson, Founding Director of the Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University, and author of Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, "[A] revealing glimpse into the inner workings of scientific research.... Since Neanderthals are our closest evolutionary relatives, the author's work in decoding Neanderthal DNA gives scientists a way to understand how we differ genetically from them and offers the opportunity to learn what genetic changes have made humans unique on this planet." -- Kirkus Reviews "The tale P��bo tells is largely one of technological improvement enabling the elimination of contamination and speeding up the sequencing process. Secondarily, it's about creating scientific foundations and multinational scientific cooperation to pursue the promises of research into ancient DNA, including that of nonhuman species as well as hominins." -- Booklist "It is a rare thing to read about an important development in science by its principal innovator, written in the spirit and style in which the research unfolded. Neanderthal Man is a dispatch from the front, and if you want to learn how real science is really done, I suggest you read it." -- Edward O. Wilson, University Research Professor, Emeritus, Harvard University, "[A]n excellent glimpse into how modern science proceeds as a global, social activity.... Pbo has to navigate through collaborators and competitors (including people who spend time in both categories), guardians of the bones he wants to grind into dust, touchy issues of nationalism, and more. In the process, he helps found a new research institute and builds a team dedicated to studying ancient DNA. If anyone doubts that science is a social activity, the doubt won't survive reading this book.... Pbo paints a picture of how a major scientific advance rose out of a mix of politics, persuasion, careful management, and struggles with technology and technique. For that alone, it's valuable." -- Ars Technica "If there is one name associated with ancient DNA, it is Svante Pbo.... Pbo pioneered and has largely led the field for the past three decades. His book, Neanderthal Man , is perfectly timed, beautifully written and required reading--it is a window onto the genesis of a whole new way of thinking." -- Nature, " Neanderthal Man opens with this episode [when P__bo and his team first sequenced Neanderthal DNA], and it's a nice touch by P__bo, bringing us straight to the moment when his long, painstaking effort to tease ancient DNA out of hominin fossils yielded its first dramatic results." -- David Quammen, Harper's "P__bo has provided us with a fabulous account of three decade of research into ancient DNA, culminating in 2010 with the publication of the Neanderthal genome.... P__bo's book has to be compared to The Double Helix (1968), James Watson's brilliant but controversial account of how the structure of DNA was discovered. When taken together they provide an insight into how bio-molecular science has both changed and remained much the same during the last half-century. Both are strong personal accounts of scientific discovery, exposing how science is driven as much by passion, ambition, and competition as by rational thought and the sharing of knowledge. In both books the reader is gripped by life stories of far greater interest than those in may novels before being plunged into passages of near-unintelligible science (despite much simplification) that are nevertheless strangely enthralling." -- Steven Mithen, New York Review of Books, "Pääbo provides ariveting, personal account of the development of paleogenetics and thetechnical revolution that made the field possible."-- Science, "Pääbo has providedus with a fabulous account of three decade of research into ancient DNA, culminatingin 2010 with the publication of the Neanderthal genome."-- New York Review of Books, "If Pbo weren't such a good storyteller, the book might have bogged down with descriptions of things like the different techniques of polymerase chain reaction, and all it takes to build a clean lab. But he's a clever enough writer to keep the reader's attention with a fast-paced story and wonderful details." -- 23andMe blog "This is a fascinating story of how modern science and especially computer technology is opening vistas onto our prehistoric history." -- The Explorers Journal "Pbo provides a fascinating look at how his personal life intersected with the founding of a scientific field that has revolutionized evolution." -- Science News, "This is the fascinating account of Svante P__bo's efforts to sequence Neanderthal nuclear DNA.... [H]is personal story, from graduate to world-renowned scientist, make this a very enjoyable book.... The study of Neanderthals has kept palaeontologists occupied for more than a century, but P__bo convinces us that decoding their DNA will provide insights into how different we are from them and what makes us so unique." -- BBC Focus "[An] engaging book.... Neanderthal Man is devoted-and devoted is definitely the word-to the years-long ancient DNA project to sequence the Neanderthal genome. P__bo and his far-flung team did that to an accuracy that exceeds most of the contemporary genomes being sequenced today.... Before I read Neanderthal Man , I thought I knew something about contamination of ancient DNA. In fact, though, I had no clue. No matter how well informed you are about genetics, Svante P__bo will teach you things." -- Tabitha Powledge, PLOS Blogs / On Science Blogs, "P��bo's tale describes a process approaching the Platonic Idea of contemporary science: a lot of very smart people collaboratively working their butts off, persisting through mistakes and failures and numbingly repetitive but essential tasks and political machinations and technological inadequacies because they believe the Truth is Out There. And finally finding it. Others have not yet weighed in, and this being top-level and therefore monumentally competitive science, contrarians may well emerge. But if the Neanderthal genome project was anything like what P��bo describes, we are damn lucky." -- Tabitha Powledge, Genetic Literacy Project "P��bo passionately chronicles his personal story, from graduate school through the culmination of the Neanderthal project 30 years later, and the scientific implications of this exciting research.... In accessible prose, P��bo presents the science so that laypersons will understand the nature and import of his work. But it's his discussion of the scientific process that steals the show.... He discusses what it took to build a case tight enough to convince even the most skeptical of colleagues and he goes on to demonstrate that scientific knowledge is cumulative and ever-evolving." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review, "This is the fascinating account of Svante Pbo's efforts to sequence Neanderthal nuclear DNA.... [H]is personal story, from graduate to world-renowned scientist, make this a very enjoyable book.... The study of Neanderthals has kept palaeontologists occupied for more than a century, but Pbo convinces us that decoding their DNA will provide insights into how different we are from them and what makes us so unique." -- BBC Focus "[An] engaging book.... Neanderthal Man is devoted-and devoted is definitely the word-to the years-long ancient DNA project to sequence the Neanderthal genome. Pbo and his far-flung team did that to an accuracy that exceeds most of the contemporary genomes being sequenced today.... Before I read Neanderthal Man , I thought I knew something about contamination of ancient DNA. In fact, though, I had no clue. No matter how well informed you are about genetics, Svante Pbo will teach you things." -- Tabitha Powledge, PLOS Blogs / On Science Blogs, "Svante P__bo's Neanderthal Man is the incredible personal story of one man's quest for our human origins using the latest genome sequence tools. P__bo takes us through his exciting journey to first extract DNA from ancient bones then sequence it to give us the first real glance at our human ancestors, and showing ultimately that early humans and Neanderthals interbred to produce modern humans. This is science at its best and reinforces that contained in each of our genomes is the history of humanity." -- J. Craig Venter, Chairman and President, J. Craig Venter Institute "Svante P__bo, a major architect in the study of paleo-DNA, has written a personal, insightful and sometimes very frank book about his relentless quest to understand the human family tree. The first scholar to extract genetic material from Neanderthals, P__bo writes candidly about the seemingly insurmountable trials and tribulations he had to overcome to give us intriguing new insights into human origins." -- Donald Johanson, Founding Director of the Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University, and author of Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, "This is the fascinating account of Svante P��bo's efforts to sequence Neanderthal nuclear DNA.... [H]is personal story, from graduate to world-renowned scientist, make this a very enjoyable book.... The study of Neanderthals has kept palaeontologists occupied for more than a century, but P��bo convinces us that decoding their DNA will provide insights into how different we are from them and what makes us so unique." -- BBC Focus "[An] engaging book.... Neanderthal Man is devoted-and devoted is definitely the word-to the years-long ancient DNA project to sequence the Neanderthal genome. P��bo and his far-flung team did that to an accuracy that exceeds most of the contemporary genomes being sequenced today.... Before I read Neanderthal Man , I thought I knew something about contamination of ancient DNA. In fact, though, I had no clue. No matter how well informed you are about genetics, Svante P��bo will teach you things." -- Tabitha Powledge, PLOS Blogs / On Science Blogs, " Neanderthal Man is a revealing history of a new scientific field."-- Carl Zimmer, New York Times BookReview, "[A] revealing glimpse into the inner workings of scientific research.... Since Neanderthals are our closest evolutionary relatives, the author's work in decoding Neanderthal DNA gives scientists a way to understand how we differ genetically from them and offers the opportunity to learn what genetic changes have made humans unique on this planet." -- Kirkus Reviews "The tale Pbo tells is largely one of technological improvement enabling the elimination of contamination and speeding up the sequencing process. Secondarily, it's about creating scientific foundations and multinational scientific cooperation to pursue the promises of research into ancient DNA, including that of nonhuman species as well as hominins." -- Booklist "It is a rare thing to read about an important development in science by its principal innovator, written in the spirit and style in which the research unfolded. Neanderthal Man is a dispatch from the front, and if you want to learn how real science is really done, I suggest you read it." -- Edward O. Wilson, University Research Professor, Emeritus, Harvard University, " Neanderthal Man opens with this episode [when P��bo and his team first sequenced Neanderthal DNA], and it's a nice touch by P��bo, bringing us straight to the moment when his long, painstaking effort to tease ancient DNA out of hominin fossils yielded its first dramatic results." -- David Quammen, Harper's "P��bo has provided us with a fabulous account of three decade of research into ancient DNA, culminating in 2010 with the publication of the Neanderthal genome.... P��bo's book has to be compared to The Double Helix (1968), James Watson's brilliant but controversial account of how the structure of DNA was discovered. When taken together they provide an insight into how bio-molecular science has both changed and remained much the same during the last half-century. Both are strong personal accounts of scientific discovery, exposing how science is driven as much by passion, ambition, and competition as by rational thought and the sharing of knowledge. In both books the reader is gripped by life stories of far greater interest than those in may novels before being plunged into passages of near-unintelligible science (despite much simplification) that are nevertheless strangely enthralling." -- Steven Mithen, New York Review of Books, "P__bo's tale describes a process approaching the Platonic Idea of contemporary science: a lot of very smart people collaboratively working their butts off, persisting through mistakes and failures and numbingly repetitive but essential tasks and political machinations and technological inadequacies because they believe the Truth is Out There. And finally finding it. Others have not yet weighed in, and this being top-level and therefore monumentally competitive science, contrarians may well emerge. But if the Neanderthal genome project was anything like what P__bo describes, we are damn lucky." -- Tabitha Powledge, Genetic Literacy Project "P__bo passionately chronicles his personal story, from graduate school through the culmination of the Neanderthal project 30 years later, and the scientific implications of this exciting research.... In accessible prose, P__bo presents the science so that laypersons will understand the nature and import of his work. But it's his discussion of the scientific process that steals the show.... He discusses what it took to build a case tight enough to convince even the most skeptical of colleagues and he goes on to demonstrate that scientific knowledge is cumulative and ever-evolving." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review, "I came for the cavemen, but I stayed for the geeky nail-biter of a story about doing historic science in a climate of fierce international competition and rapid technological innovation.... Truth be told, DNA sequencing is pretty wonky stuff, but perhaps it's P��bo's own passionate investment in the undertaking that makes his story so exciting to read about; Neanderthal Man does for paleogenetics something like what Steven Spielberg did for the legislative process in Lincoln .... [T]his book is a vibrant testimonial to what might be the greatest creation of modern humans: the scientific method." -- Laura Miller, Salon "Much of P��bo's book is devoted to the details of the difficulties [of extracting DNA from ancient bones], and how they were overcome by an awesome combination of technology, ingenuity and persistence. It's a story of how modern high-concept science is done, shot through with the crackle of problem-solving and the hum of project tension, with occasional riffs of annoyance about major scientific journals and people who want dinosaur DNA." -- The Independent (UK), "[A]n excellent glimpse into how modern science proceeds as a global, social activity.... P��bo has to navigate through collaborators and competitors (including people who spend time in both categories), guardians of the bones he wants to grind into dust, touchy issues of nationalism, and more. In the process, he helps found a new research institute and builds a team dedicated to studying ancient DNA. If anyone doubts that science is a social activity, the doubt won't survive reading this book.... P��bo paints a picture of how a major scientific advance rose out of a mix of politics, persuasion, careful management, and struggles with technology and technique. For that alone, it's valuable." -- Ars Technica "If there is one name associated with ancient DNA, it is Svante P��bo.... P��bo pioneered and has largely led the field for the past three decades. His book, Neanderthal Man , is perfectly timed, beautifully written and required reading--it is a window onto the genesis of a whole new way of thinking." -- Nature, "Ifthere is one name associated with ancient DNA, it is Svante Pääbo.... Neanderthal Man is perfectly timed,beautifully written and required reading."-- Nature, "In Neanderthal Man , Svante P__bo offers readers a front-row seat to the still-unfolding understanding of this enigmatic human ancestor by recounting his own years of work.... P__bo quite candidly relays the doubts and challenges that accompanied more than a decade of discovery--a labor that elevated Neanderthals from troglodyte brutes inhabiting a dead-end branch of the human family tree to a complex species that interbred with other hominins, including Homo sapiens. Never one to shy away from provocative statements or even-more-provocative research, P__bo gives what appears to be an honest and open account of his pioneering studies of Neanderthal genetics." -- The Scientist "Evolutionary biologists are, general, pretty interesting people to talk to, but rarely would you describe their lives as thrilling. The notion of combining an autobiography with a popular science book may therefore not seem especially compelling. However, in this case both the author and the science are quite extraordinary, and inextricably linked." -- Evening Standard (UK), "Pääbo provides afascinating look at how his personal life intersected with the founding of ascientific field that has revolutionized evolution." -- Science News, "Pääbo provides a fascinating look at how his personal life intersected with the founding of a scientific field that has revolutionized evolution."-- Science News, "If there is one name associated with ancient DNA, it is Svante Pääbo.... Neanderthal Man is perfectly timed, beautifully written and required reading."-- Nature
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| Will usually ship within 4 business days of receiving cleared payment. |
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Sales tax for an item #395092080995
Sales tax for an item #395092080995
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u***n (38)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past 6 months
Verified purchase
Product is 95% alike picture but a little more blurry. Controller play well but had a notice from psn that my joypad wasn't authentic and could by problematic🤷♂️ no trouble so far! Shipping was fast but no tracking and worst packaging ever.. like the box came banged up... send a question to seller never had a reply 😅.... Good product overall, excellent price, fast shipping, wrapped only on 4 sides out of 6, no tracking and never reply... 4★ product / 2★ seller ✌️
l***t (120)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past 6 months
Verified purchase
The book is in perfect condition, brand new, and is exactly as described. This item is difficult to find here, and the seller priced it very reasonably. It shipped from the UK to Canada, and unfortunately took a little longer to arrive than the seller hoped, but it was shipped less than 24 hours after I purchased. When I contacted the seller, they were very responsive and helpful. I would not hesitate to purchase from this seller again. Definitely recommend!
s***a (696)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past month
Verified purchase
AAA seller. Item came as described and within the due date. Great communication. Well packed and no damage to the case.