"A little bit of time travel": Svante Pääbo on what fossilized DNA can tell us about human history

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Channel: Breakthrough · 2017 · Science & Technology

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Pioneering paleogeneticist and 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences winner Svante Pääbo talks about how he sequences ancient DNA, an what we can learn from it, including how Neanderthals live on in modern human genes, and how these genes affect our health.

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