Nobel Prize winner Svante Pääbo discusses his work in paleogenetics, including sequencing the Neanderthal genome, discovering the Denisovans, and his theories on why Homo sapiens survived while Neanderthals went extinct, attributing it to our larger population size.
The article discusses the existence of over 20 early human species that coexisted with Homo sapiens, their potential reasons for extinction (climate change, competition, interbreeding), and the current understanding of human evolution.
