Körber Lecture 2018: Human origins from a neandertal perspective

Körber Prizewinner 2018 Svante Pääbo from Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology presents his pioneering achievements in the field of palaeogenetics, of which he is considered the founder. One of Pääbo's most important scientific breakthroughs is the decoding of the Neanderthal genome. His work has revolutionized our understanding of the evolutionary history of modern humans; it has been significantly conducive to the realization that Neanderthals and other extinct human groups have contributed to the ancestry of present-day humans.