Svante Pääbo, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, is regarded as the founder of paleogenetics. Together with his team of the Neandertal Genome Project Svante has sequenced the complete genome of a Neandertal for for the first time. It revealed that that Neandertals and modern human had mixed with each other. As a result, Neandertal genes had been passed on to people living outside whose genetic roots are outside Africa.