Svante PääboSvante Pääbo is the director of the Department of Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. He has been featured in the New York Times, Newsweek, National Geographic, and The Economist, as well as on NPR,PBS, and the BBC. In 2009, Time named him one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. Pääbo lives in Leipzig. Read More Read Less