In 2006, Svante Pääbo and the Max Planck Institute announced that they, as the first in the world, would map the complete genome of an ancient human.Their goal was to map a genome from a Neanderthal. This was news that went around the world. And in Copenhagen, Eske was fully involved in the race to be the first in the world to read the genes of an ancient human being. While Svante Pääbo looked at the genes of a Neanderthal, Eske looked at the genes of an ancient Homo sapiens. It was a fierce race. Svante had the money. Eske was the underdog and had difficulty finding the funds.
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