Viviane Slon
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Viviane Slon is a paleogeneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. She identified that a teenage girl born 90,000 years ago had both Neanderthal and Denisovan parents. She wa
Denisova Cave in 2008
Svante Pääbo
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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 gen
Viviane Slon
…at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. She develops techniques to remove hominin DNA from sediments. Her doctoral supervisor Svante Pääbo decoded the Denisovan gene. Slon visited the Denisova Cave during a symposium, where over one thousand bones are excavated a year. As her first project…
Pääbo in 2016
Pääbo at the 2014 Nobel Conference
Pääbo showed the medal of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Fumio Kishida (February 1, 2023).