Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Svante Paabo

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Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Svante Pääbo 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. He was appointed director of the Department of Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany in 1997.

Swedish - Scientist | Born: April 20, 1955

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I really wanted to discover mummies, like Indiana Jones.

Svante Paabo

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.

Svante Paabo

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.

Svante Paabo

From a genomic perspective, we are all Africans.

Svante Paabo

Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Svante Paabo

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