Black Squirrel Club

Profs and Pints Philadelphia presents: “The Neanderthals Among Us,” on the genetic legacy of our ancestors’ pairings with Homo neanderthalensis and what such genes tell us about prehistoric life, with Alexander Platt, evolutionary geneticist and senior research scientist at University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine. “Extinction” is a slippery word. Neanderthals went extinct tens of thousands of years ago, yet in a sense they’re more genetically present on Earth than ever given all of the markers of Neanderthal ancestry found mixed in the genes of the eight billion Homo sapiens around today. Moreover, Neanderthals aren't the only type of