You don’t need to look at genomes to figure that out. SIGN UP Did we have sex with Neanderthals? Fast, but not so fast that it has spilled over into places like Russia and Uganda. Which is a shrug and “whatever.” A revolution, really, but radical chiefly in that it has happened so fast. This struck me as being fully in line with the trend in public attitudes toward sexual preferences, in the West at least. Instead, they are matter-of-fact disclosures. Not about his gay life and not about the events leading to that private romantic marriage.
But the candor reveals no drama and recounts no prurient details. That they all lived happily ever after.Ī novelty in scientific autobiography, to be sure, and bound to raise more than a few eyebrows. Told with a strong implication that it wasn’t that big a deal. An affair that resulted in a son and marriage on a remote beach in Hawaii. His candor about his bisexuality and his lengthy affair with a (female) scientist who also happened to be the wife of a colleague/collaborator who was nearly as well known in evolutionary genetics as Pääbo himself. Sex in the sense of the drawn-out process of discovering whether we, the anatomically modern humans who are the sole survivors of the genus Homo, ever mated and produced children with our extinct nearest relative.Īnd–let’s deal with this first and get it out of the way–sex in the sense of Pääbo’s own sex life. Sex in the sense of sexual behavior, not biological sex. Svante Pääbo’s memoir of how he came to lead a project to sequence the Neanderthal genome- Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes - is at heart about sex. Is the Genetic Literacy Project a corporate ‘front’? GLP responds to ongoing false allegations from US Right to Know / Organic Consumers Association / SourceWatch / Baum Hedlund / Church of Scientology.GLP Integrity Policies: Privacy, Conflicts of Interest, Verification, Fact-Checking Standards and Corrections.Mission, Financial Transparency and Governance.
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