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Svante Pääbo is a Swedish geneticist who sequenced the genome of the Neanderthal and discovered a new hominin, Denisova. He also found that ancient genes from these extinct hominins have influenced modern humans' immune system.
Svante Pääbo ForMemRS KmstkNO (Swedish: [ˈsvânːtɛ̂ ˈpʰɛ̌ːbʊ̂]; born 20 April 1955) is a Swedish geneticist and Nobel Laureate who specialises in the field of evolutionary genetics. As one of the founders of paleogenetics, he has worked extensively on the Neanderthal genome.
Svante Pääbo is a Swedish geneticist and evolutionary biologist who studies ancient DNA and human origins. He is the director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and has received many awards and honors, including the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2022.
Oct 3, 2022 · The Swedish geneticist pioneered methods to extract and sequence DNA from 40,000-year-old Neanderthal bones. His work revealed how modern humans and Neanderthals are related and how their genes affect health and evolution.
Oct 3, 2022 · Svante Pääbo, a Swedish scientist who peered back into human history by retrieving genetic material from 40,000-year-old bones, producing a complete Neanderthal genome and launching the field of...
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Oct 7, 2022 · Svante Pääbo, a Swedish geneticist, won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries on human evolution. He sequenced the first Neanderthal genome and identified the Denisovans, and he studies the genetic changes that make modern humans unique.
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