Svante Pääbo
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Svante Pääbo, biologist, specializing in evolutionary genetics, born in 1955 i Stockholm, Sweden, PhD from Uppsala University in 1986, since 1997 director of the Department of Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
Personal homepage, http://www.eva.mpg.de/~svante/
Svante's department in August 2002 published findings about the "language gene", FOXP2, which is unique to humans and lacking or damaged in some individuals with language disabilities.