Neanderthal Man with Svante Pääbo - Conversations with History - UCTV

This is a fascinating discussion.
It starts a little slow if you are focused on the title,
because they spend a fair amount of time speaking about Pääbo’s scientific development and a bit of science philosophy,
really quite interesting.
Then the last third that does focus on the state of knowledge regarding Neanderthal DNA in modern humans is quite the trip,
if you haven’t been keeping up

Neanderthal Man with Svante Pääbo - Conversations with History (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svante_Pääbo) University of California Television (UCTV) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRmA1LrMyDE
Published on Oct 6, 2014 (Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Svante Pääbo, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, for a discussion of his intellectual journey. Svante Pääbo highlights both the opportunities and obstacles that characterized his 30 year quest to uncover the genome of Neanderthal Man. In the course of his reflections, he elucidates the nature of scientific inquiry and highlights the possible long-term implications of using genetic research to understand the genome of human ancestors and thereby understand the uniqueness of humans. Svante Pääbo was the 2014 Foerster Lecturer at Berkeley. Recorded on 09/10/2014. Series: "Conversations with History" [10/2014] [Science] [Show ID: 28721]

Hmmm, tomorrow. . .

A Neanderthal Perspective on Human Origins by Svante Pääbo roblewis56 Published on Sep 11, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzSKh9u5TM4 This is the Agnes A. and Constantine E. A. FOERSTER LECTURE on the Immortality of the Soul given at International House, September 10, 2014. Svante Pääbo is a Swedish biologist and evolutionary anthropologist, best known as one of the founders of paleogenetics. His work shows that Neanderthals interbred with Eurasians resulting in traces of Neanderthal DNA in many of us alive today. His book "Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes" was published earlier this year. For more info see: gradlectures.berkeley.edu.
Then the last third that does focus on the state of knowledge regarding Neanderthal DNA in modern humans is quite the trip, if you haven’t been keeping up
I bought a hard copy of the book just after it came out CC. He's a leader in the field of paleoanthropology and like you, what fascinates me is the irrefutable DNA evidence and how it is showing up in those of us with European ancestry. Always wanted to do the 23 and Me thing but then it fell under a suspicious shadow. Surely there's a reputable site somewhere. Know any? Another thing that really fascinates me is the prospect of overlapping hominin species existing together in the same time period. Cap't Jack

I got this book last weekend, paid $15 for Kindle edition - this fascinating book. I haven’t finished the book yet, I wander if this DNA approach would solve ethnic conflicts one day.

Then the last third that does focus on the state of knowledge regarding Neanderthal DNA in modern humans is quite the trip, if you haven’t been keeping up
I bought a hard copy of the book just after it came out CC. He's a leader in the field of paleoanthropology and like you, what fascinates me is the irrefutable DNA evidence and how it is showing up in those of us with European ancestry. Always wanted to do the 23 and Me thing but then it fell under a suspicious shadow. Surely there's a reputable site somewhere. Know any? Another thing that really fascinates me is the prospect of overlapping hominin species existing together in the same time period. Cap't Jack
You can get it done here http://dna.ancestry.com/?s_kwcid=dna+testing&hl=One+simple+DNA+test.+A+world+of+discoveries.&o_xid=55307&o_lid=55307&o_sch=Paid+Search+–+NonBrand It's $99. Also, The National Geographic Society does it for about the same price. Both are reliable. Lois