Svante paabo biography of christopher columbus

book by Svante Pääbo

Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes is a book by evolutionary anthropologistSvante Pääbo.^[1] The book describes Pääbo's research into the DNA of Neanderthals, extinct hominins that lived across much of Europe and the Middle East.

It is written in the style of a memoir, combining scientific findings with personal anecdotes.^[2]

Synopsis

Pääbo describes his early interest in Egyptology, and how his work in sequencing the DNA of a mummy led him into evolutionary anthropology.

Christopher Columbus - Age, Married, Children and Legacy

He touches upon his personal life, reflecting on his father, the chemist Sune Bergström, with whom he had a relatively distant relationship, and on his own marriage and son. He describes the emergence and development of the field of evolutionary genetics, and contributions to it made by himself and colleagues. Much of the book is devoted to his research team's efforts at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionar Christopher Columbus - Wikipedia JAV