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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787723003321

Autore

Pääbo Svante

Titolo

Neanderthal man : in search of lost genomes / / Svante Pääbo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Basic Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-465-08068-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Classificazione

SCI027000SCI029000BIO015000

Disciplina

569.9/86

Soggetti

Neanderthals

Human population genetics

Genome analysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; 1. Neanderthal ex Machina; 2. Mummies and Molecules; 3. Amplifying the Past; 4. Dinosaurs in the Lab; 5. Human Frustrations; 6. A Croatian Connection; 7. A New Home; 8. Multiregional Controversies; 9. Nuclear Tests; 10. Going Nuclear; 11. Starting the Genome Project; 12. Hard Bones; 13. The Devil in the Details; 14. Mapping the Genome; 15. From Bones to Genome; 16. Gene Flow?; 17. First Insights; 18. Gene Flow!; 19. The Replacement Crowd; 20. Human Essence?; 21. Publishing the Genome; 22. A Very Unusual Finger; 23. A Neanderthal Relative; Postscript; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A preeminent geneticist hunts the Neanderthal genome to answer the biggest question of them all: what does it mean to be human?What can we learn from the genes of our closest evolutionary relatives? Neanderthal Man tells the story of geneticist Svante Pääbo's mission to answer that question, beginning with the study of DNA in Egyptian mummies in the early 1980s and culminating in his sequencing of the Neanderthal genome in 2009.  From Pääbo, we learn how Neanderthal genes offer a unique window into the lives of our hominin relatives and may hold the key to unlocking



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910815749403321

Autore

Corrieri Augusto

Titolo

In place of a show : what happens inside theatres when nothing is happening / / .Augusto Corrieri

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Bloomsbury UK, , 2020

London, England : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2020

ISBN

1-4742-5675-9

1-4742-5673-2

1-4742-5674-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (2,092 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Methuen drama

Disciplina

725.822

Soggetti

Theaters - Reconstruction

Theatre studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-198) and index

Nota di contenuto

Cuvilliés-theater: the lasting house -- Dalston theatre: progress report on a missing building -- Teatro olimpico: the avian theatre -- Teatro Amazonas: 'the opera house in the jungle'

Sommario/riassunto

In Place of a Show is a compelling account of Western theatre buildings in the 21st century: theatres stripped of their primary purpose, lying empty, preserved as museums, or demolished. Playfully combining first-person narratives, scholarly research and visual documents, Augusto Corrieri explores the material and imaginative potentials of these places, charting interconnections between humans, birds, vegetation, and the beguiling animations of inanimate things, such as walls, curtains and seats. Across four chapters we learn of the uncanny dismantling and reconstitution of a German Baroque auditorium during the Second World War; the phantasmal remains of a demolished music hall in London's East End; a Renaissance Italian theatre, fleetingly transformed into an aviary by the appearance of a swallow; and a lavish opera house emerging from the Amazon rainforest. In these pages we are invited to discover theatres as sites of anomalous encounters and surprising coincidences: places that might reveal the performative entanglement of human and nonhuman worlds.