How Neanderthals Lost Their Y Chromosome with Martin Petr, PhD
Channel: Socratic Studios
Date: 2020-12-21

Finding the Neanderthal Y chromosome has been an ongoing challenge for scientists, but, due to some recent technological developments, the first one has been observed. We talked to Dr. Martin Petr, a member of the team that accomplished this extraordinary feat. Listen as he discusses the interesting and often surprising things that were discovered in the process of this research.

About us: Socratic Studios empowers the scientists of tomorrow by allowing them to communicate the discoveries of today. It's co-founders, Vishnu Veeravalli and Sunjum Sanghari, both sophomores in high school, are science lovers and are on a mission to share their passion with the world.