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Svante Pääbo is a genetics specialist with an H-index of 160 at Max Planck Institute (Member). Has been published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Science, Nature. Based in Unknown, Unknown, Global.
Biography
Svante Pääbo 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. In 1997, he became founding director of the Department of Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. Since 1999, he has been an honorary professor at Leipzig University; he currently teaches molecular evolutionary biology at the university. He is also an adjunct professor at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan.
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Key Publications
A draft sequence of the Neandertal genome.
Human-specific gene ARHGAP11B promotes basal progenitor amplification and neocortex expansion.
The molecular evolution of spermatogenesis across mammals.
The genetic changes that shaped Neandertals, Denisovans, and modern humans.
The complete genome sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains.
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