Viviane Slon
Viviane Slon | |
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| Alma mater | Tel Aviv University Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |
| Known for | Paleogenetics Denny |
| Awards | Nature's 10 (2018) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Ancient DNA Human evolution Paleoanthropology |
| Institutions | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |
| Doctoral advisor | Svante Pääbo |
Viviane Slon is a paleogeneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. She identified that a teenage girl born 90,000 years ago had both Neanderthal and Denisovan parents. She was selected as one of Nature's 10 in 2018.