Svante Pääbo

Paleogenetics

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Year of Birth

1955

Nationality

SE

Field of Knowledge

Evolutionary Biology

Svante Pääbo ([ˈsvanːteː ˈpæːboː]; 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. Since 1997, he has been director of the Department of Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

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