TOP Event:
| 18.12.2023, 17:00 | LMU Faculty of Biology | ||
until 18:00
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Event Type:
other Event
Speaker: Svante Pääbo Institute: Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie Title: A Neandertal Perspective on Recent Human Evolution |
Location:
B00.019 Großhadernerstr. 2 82152 Martinsried Host: Faculty of Biology |
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Abstract:
The Faculty of Biology is proud to host its former faculty member and Nobel price laureate Svante Pääbo for its yearly Christmas talk. Svante Pääbo became Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine 2022.
His laboratory has generated high-quality genome sequences from Neandertals and Denisovans, archaic hominins who shared a common ancestor with present-day humans about half a million years ago. Analyses of these genomes show that gene flow occurred among modern human ancestors and archaic hominins. As a consequence, archaic genetic variants occur in present-day people. Professor Pääbo will discuss the effects of some of these variants as well as of some variants that appeared and rose to high frequencies in modern humans since their divergence from the archaic hominins. Registration Link: |
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