A recent issue of Smithsonian magazine profiled Svante Paabo, who directs the genetics department at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Aside from learning that Paabo, a former Egyptology student, likes to get comfy by folding "his long legs under his angular body to perch on a sofa," the article introduces lay readers to the concept of evolutionary biology. Hey, if Mary-Claire King calls the man "a visionary," we say it's worth checking out the profile.
A Reminder to the Angular Egyptologist: All Press Is Good Press
Dec 15, 2006
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