Svante Paabo
Svante Paabo
Svante Pääbois a Swedish biologist specializing in evolutionary genetics. One of the founders of paleogenetics, he has worked extensively on the Neanderthal genome...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth20 April 1955
CountrySweden
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From a genomic perspective, we are all Africans.
moon technology eight
In the 50,000 years that followed—a time four to eight times shorter than the entire length of time the Neanderthals existed—the replacement crowd not only settled on almost every habitable speck of land on the planet, they developed technology that allowed them to go to the moon and beyond.
discover indiana
I really wanted to discover mummies, like Indiana Jones.
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I want to know what changed in fully modern humans, compared with Neanderthals, that made a difference. What made it possible for us to build up these enormous societies, and spread around the globe, and develop the technology that I think no one can doubt is unique to humans.