Svante Paabo

Professions :

Genetic biologist

Born :

April 20, 1955

From a genomic perspective, we are all Africans. by Svante Paabo

From a genomic perspective, we are all Africans.

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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.

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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.

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I really wanted to discover mummies, like Indiana Jones. by Svante Paabo

I really wanted to discover mummies, like Indiana Jones.

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