How are Neanderthals related to the COVID-19 virus? Is it possible to turn off the gene responsible for AIDS? Answering these and other topical questions, Luis Quintana Mursi attracts relevant genetic research, analyzes our past and offers to think about the future. Luis Quintana-Mursi - Professor, Head of the Department of Genomics and Human Evolution at the College de France, Professor at the Pasteur Institute, Head of the Laboratory of Human Evolutionary Genetics at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), member of the French Academy of Sciences.