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Exchanges at the Frontier: The Search for Neanderthal Genes
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Mar 12, 2016

From his early work with Egyptian mummies to his breath taking achievement of sequencing the genome of our nearest ancient relatives - the Neanderthals - professor Svante Paabo has changed how we think about ourselves. He and his team have found a comparatively small number of changes in the genes between us and Neanderthals, including changes in the brain. Could these differences explain what makes us human?

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Exchanges at the Frontier: The Search for Neanderthal Genes

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