# Svante Pääbo (@svante-paabo)

Svante Pääbo was a Swedish geneticist. Pääbo developed contamination controls and molecular methods that made genetic study of extinct hominins increasingly reliable.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Svante Pääbo's public record._

## Topics

- [Interpreting Ancestry](/@svante-paabo/interpreting-ancestry.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Ancient DNA](/@svante-paabo/ancient-dna.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Neanderthals and Denisovans](/@svante-paabo/neanderthals-and-denisovans.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2022/paabo/facts/
- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2022/advanced-information/
- blog: https://www.eva.mpg.de/genetics/staff/svante-paabo/

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "svante-paabo", "question": "…"}`.