Svante Paabo Quotes

Sweden, Biologist
April 20, 1955

Svante Pääbo is a Swedish biologist specializing in evolutionary genetics. As one of the founders of paleogenetics, he has worked extensively on the Neanderthal genome. Since 1997, he has been director of the Department of Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

The dirty little secret of genomics is that we still know next to nothing about how a genome translates into the particularities of a living and breathing individual.

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- Living
- Genome
- Translates
From a genomic perspective, we are all Africans.

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Science is far from the objective and impartial search for incontrovertible truths that nonscientists might imagine. It is, in fact, a social endeavor where dominating personalities and disciples of often defunct yet influential scholars determine what is “common knowledge.

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- Knowledge
- Imagine
- Search
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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