P_bo pioneered and has largely led the field for the past three decades. For that alone, it's valuable." - Ars Technica "If there is one name associated with ancient DNA, it is Svante P_bo. P_bo paints a picture of how a major scientific advance rose out of a mix of politics, persuasion, careful management, and struggles with technology and technique. If anyone doubts that science is a social activity, the doubt won't survive reading this book. In the process, he helps found a new research institute and builds a team dedicated to studying ancient DNA. P_bo has to navigate through collaborators and competitors (including people who spend time in both categories), guardians of the bones he wants to grind into dust, touchy issues of nationalism, and more. However, in this case both the author and the science are quite extraordinary, and inextricably linked." - Evening Standard (UK), "n excellent glimpse into how modern science proceeds as a global, social activity. The notion of combining an autobiography with a popular science book may therefore not seem especially compelling.
Never one to shy away from provocative statements or even-more-provocative research, Pbo gives what appears to be an honest and open account of his pioneering studies of Neanderthal genetics." - The Scientist "Evolutionary biologists are, general, pretty interesting people to talk to, but rarely would you describe their lives as thrilling. Pbo quite candidly relays the doubts and challenges that accompanied more than a decade of discovery-a labor that elevated Neanderthals from troglodyte brutes inhabiting a dead-end branch of the human family tree to a complex species that interbred with other hominins, including Homo sapiens.
"In Neanderthal Man, Svante Pbo offers readers a front-row seat to the still-unfolding understanding of this enigmatic human ancestor by recounting his own years of work.
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