6 Quotes by Svante Pääbo

No se debe olvidar la historia ni dejar de aprender de ella, pero tampoco hay que tener miedo de avanzar.

I really wanted to discover mummies, like Indiana Jones.

I want to know what changed in fully modern humans, compared with Neanderthals, that made a difference. What made it possible for us to build up these enormous societies, and spread around the globe, and develop the technology that I think no one can doubt is unique to humans.

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.

From a genomic perspective, we are all Africans.

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.