Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes

Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes

What can we learn from the genomes of our closest evolutionary relatives?

Neanderthal Man tells the story of geneticist Svante Pääbo’s mission to answer this question, and recounts his ultimately succe…

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