Svante Pääbo
Human evolution wasn’t a ladder — it was a tangle of interbreeding lineages, and some of their genes are still making us sick.
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Neanderthal genome project
Svante Paabo · 2006
The Neanderthal genome project did not discover interbreeding as a hypothesis — it confirmed it with genomic data. It replaced speculation with measurement: four billion base pairs, three Croatian specimens, one decisive conclusion. Its legacy is methodological rigour and a rewritten human family tree.