Richard Edward Green, assistant professor of biomolecular engineering, University of California Santa Cruz.
Dr. Green gave a talk at the library on “Recent Human Evolution Revealed by Ancient Hominid Genomes” as part of the Relatively Human lecture series.
Dr. Green helped use advanced sequencing technology to study ancient DNA extracted from fossil bones. As a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, he coordinated the Neanderthal genome project.
A paper on the Neanderthal genome published in May 2010 earned him the Newcomb Cleveland Prize for outstanding paper published in the journal Science. A subsequent article published in the December 2010 issue of Nature described a previously unknown group of human relatives, called "Denisovans."
This draft sequence provides important new information about the evolution of modern humans and helps scientists identify the features of our genome that define the basis of human uniqueness.
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