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Neanderthal Man : In Search of Lost Genomes /

A preeminent geneticist hunts the Neanderthal genome to answer the biggest question of them all: what does it mean to be human?What can we learn from the genes of our closest evolutionary relatives? Neanderthal Man tells the story of geneticist Svante Pääbo's mission to answer that question,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pääbo, Svante (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Basic Books, [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Neanderthal ex machina
  • Mummies and molecules
  • Amplifying the past
  • Dinosaurs in the lab
  • Human frustrations
  • A Croatian connection
  • A new home
  • Multiregional controversies
  • Nuclear tests
  • Going nuclear
  • Starting the genome project
  • Hard bones
  • The devil in the details
  • Mapping the genome
  • From bones to genome
  • Gene flow?
  • First insights
  • Gene flow!
  • The replacement crowd
  • Human essence?
  • Publishing the genome
  • A very unusual finger
  • A Neanderthal relative.