Svante Pääbo at the Society of Neuroscience Meetings

Carl Zimmer, writing at Discover, has a great piece on Svante Pääbo talking about Neandertals at a major neuroscience conference. Although I don’t agree with all of Zimmer’s characterizations, the piece is a nice primer on what we have learned about our relationship to Neandertals based on genetic studies over the past 15 years.

About Adam Van Arsdale

I am biological anthropologist with a specialization in paleoanthropology. My research focuses on the pattern of evolutionary change in humans over the past two million years, with an emphasis on the early evolution and dispersal of our genus, Homo. My work spans a number of areas including comparative anatomy, genetics and demography.
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