title: The human condition-a molecular approach.
abstract: Research into when and where modern humans originated and how they differ from, and interacted with, other now-extinct forms of human has so far been the realm of archaeologists and paleoanthropologists. However, over the past decade, molecular geneticists have begun to study genomes of extinct humans. Here, I discuss where we stand today with respect to understanding how modern humans came to differ from Neandertals and other human forms that existed until about 30,000 years ago.
authors.affiliation: Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany. Electronic address: paabo@eva.mpg.de.
authors.forename: Svante
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pääbo
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D003469:Culture; D016678:Genome; D015894:Genome, Human; D015186:Hominidae / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA