Svante Pääbo
Svante Pääbo ([ˈsvanːtɛ ˈpæːbo]; born 20 April 1955) is a Swedish geneticist specialising in the field of evolutionary genetics. As one of the founders of paleogenetics, he has worked extensively on the Neanderthal genome. He was appointed director of the Department of Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany in 1997.
Swedish-Estonian biologist, paleogeneticist
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