Living Neanderthal 'Mini-Brains' May Reveal What Makes Our Brains Special

He isolated DNA from Egyptian mummies. He discovered the Denisovans, an extinct ancient human species, by sequencing DNA from a tiny bone fragment. He led a massive study that reconstructed the Neanderthal genome--and found traces of their genes still lurking within some of us today. Now, the Swedish geneticist Dr. Svante Pääbo is once again ready […]