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Svante Pääbo

Ancient-genome researcher

Also known as Svante Paabo · S. Pääbo

Who they are

Svante Pääbo was a corresponding coauthor of the international team’s 2010 draft Neanderthal genome study. The work recovered and compared ancient genetic material to examine relationships between Neanderthals and present-day humans. Its evidence for gene flow changed how interbreeding could be investigated, with conclusions dependent on the samples and methods actually used.

He connects laboratory recovery of ancient DNA with the timeline’s account of human ancestry.

Selected contributions

Corresponding coauthor of the 2010 draft Neanderthal genome paper.Source ↗

Selected works

Academic paper · 2010 · Peer-reviewed article
A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome
Coauthor and corresponding author · Science / AAAS; copy hosted by Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
The international team compares a draft Neandertal genome with sampled present-day humans. Patterns in those comparisons support an inference of gene flow into ancestors of non-African populations.
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Reading scope & citation
Reused prior inspected evidence: Specified sampling, comparison and concluding gene-flow passages inspected; complete supplementary methods and raw sequences not audited. Reuses the input’s documented prior inspection: Specified sampling, comparison and concluding gene-flow passages inspected; complete supplementary methods and raw sequences not audited. No fresh full-work reread in this directory pass.