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Vivianne Slon
Alma materTel Aviv University
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Known forPaleogenetics
Denny
AwardsNature's 10 (2018)
Scientific career
InstitutionsMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Vivianne 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 a denisovan parents. She was selected as one of Nature's 10 in 2018.

Early life and education

Slon completed her doctoral studies at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.[1] She won the 2017 Dan David Prize.[2] She worked at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University on the earliest human fossils outside Africa.[3][4] She studied the Qafzeh 9 Skull, looking at developmental malocclusions.[5]

Research and career

Denisova Cave in 2008

In 2018 Slon was made a postdoc working on neanderthals at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.[6] She develops techniques to remove hominin DNA from sediments.[7][8][9] Her doctoral supervisor Svante Pääbo decoded the Denisovan gene.[10][11] Slon visited the Denisova Cave during a symposium, where over one thousand bones are excavated a year.[10] She reported the DNA from the tooth of the fourth Denisova individual ever found on earth.[12][13] Together with her colleague Samantha Brown, Slon extracted the DNA from a hominin bone.[10][14] The bone was found in a Middle Pleistocene layer.[15] She discovered that the bone was from a girl born 90,000 years ago whose parents with mixed ancestry; a neanderthal and a denisovan.[10][16][17] They published the genome of Denny, a hybrid hominin, in 2018.[18] The work was covered in BBC News, National Geographic, EurekAlert!, The Atlantic and Archaeology magazine.[19][20][21][22][23][24]

Slon was selected as one of Nature's 10 in 2018.[25]

References

  1. ^ Fleur, Nicholas St (2017-07-07). "In a Lost Baby Tooth, Scientists Find Ancient Denisovan DNA". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
  2. ^ Prize, Dan David. "SLON Viviane". www.dandavidprize.org. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
  3. ^ Weinstein-Evron, Mina; Zaidner, Yossi; Tsatskin, Alexander; Yeshurun, Reuven; Weissbrod, Lior; Groman-Yaroslavski, Iris; Peled, Natan; Wu, Xinzhi; Cui, Yaming (2018-01-26). "The earliest modern humans outside Africa". Science. 359 (6374): 456–459. doi:10.1126/science.aap8369. ISSN 1095-9203. PMID 29371468.
  4. ^ Slon, Viviane; Hershkovitz, Israel; May, Hila (2014). "The value of cadaver CT scans in gross anatomy laboratory". Anatomical Sciences Education. 7 (1): 80–82. doi:10.1002/ase.1400. ISSN 1935-9780.
  5. ^ Hershkovitz, Israel; Vardimon, Alexander Dan; Shpack, Nir; May, Hila; Abbas, Janan; Slon, Viviane; Sarig, Rachel (2013-11-20). "Malocclusion in Early Anatomically Modern Human: A Reflection on the Etiology of Modern Dental Misalignment". PLOS ONE. 8 (11): e80771. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0080771. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3835570. PMID 24278319.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: PMC format (link) CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  6. ^ "Dept. of Genetics | Staff". www.eva.mpg.de. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
  7. ^ "DNA from Ancient Hominins Discovered in Cave Sediments". Everything Dinosaur Blog. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
  8. ^ Corness, Liz. "DNA of extinct humans found in caves". Science Solutions Recruitment. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
  9. ^ Montanari, Shaena. "Scientists Sequence Ancient Neandertal DNA From Cave Dirt". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
  10. ^ a b c d "Viviane Slon among Nature's annual Top Ten". www.mpg.de. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
  11. ^ "Entire genome of extinct human decoded from fossil". www.mpg.de. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
  12. ^ Pääbo, Svante; Meyer, Matthias; Prüfer, Kay; Kelso, Janet; Derevianko, Anatoly P.; Shunkov, Michael V.; Hublin, Jean-Jacques; Sawyer, Susanna; Benazzi, Stefano (2017-07-01). "A fourth Denisovan individual". Science Advances. 3 (7): e1700186. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1700186. ISSN 2375-2548.
  13. ^ Choi, Charles Q.; July 10, Live Science Contributor |; ET, 2017 08:58am. "200,000-Year-Old 'Baby Tooth' Reveals Clues About Mysterious Human Lineage". Live Science. Retrieved 2018-12-21. {{cite web}}: |first2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  14. ^ Brown, Samantha; Higham, Thomas; Slon, Viviane; Pääbo, Svante; Meyer, Matthias; Douka, Katerina; Brock, Fiona; Comeskey, Daniel; Procopio, Noemi (2016-03-29). "Identification of a new hominin bone from Denisova Cave, Siberia using collagen fingerprinting and mitochondrial DNA analysis". Scientific Reports. 6. doi:10.1038/srep23559. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 4810434. PMID 27020421.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: PMC format (link)
  15. ^ Meyer, Matthias; Pääbo, Svante; Burbano, Hernán A.; Kelso, Janet; Prüfer, Kay; Schmidt, Anna; Nickel, Birgit; Nagel, Sarah; Essel, Elena (2017-04-27). "Neandertal and Denisovan DNA from Pleistocene sediments". Science: eaam9695. doi:10.1126/science.aam9695. ISSN 1095-9203. PMID 28450384.
  16. ^ "Daughter of Neanderthal mom, exotic foreign dad revealed by ancient DNA | Canada Times of News". Retrieved 2018-12-21.
  17. ^ "'Denisova 11' Had Neanderthal Mother and Denisovan Father | Genetics, Paleoanthropology | Sci-News.com". Breaking Science News | Sci-News.com. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
  18. ^ Pääbo, Svante; Prüfer, Kay; Meyer, Matthias; Kelso, Janet; Derevianko, Anatoly P.; Shunkov, Michael V.; Kozlikin, Maxim B.; Higham, Tom; Douka, Katerina (2018-09). "The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father". Nature. 561 (7721): 113–116. doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0455-x. ISSN 1476-4687. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  19. ^ "Ancient Girl's Parents Were Two Different Human Species". Science & Innovation. 2018-08-22. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
  20. ^ "Neandertal mother, Denisovan father!". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
  21. ^ Zhang, Sarah (2018-08-22). "Scientists Stunned by a Neanderthal Hybrid Discovered in a Siberian Cave". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
  22. ^ "Caveman Genetics - Archaeology Magazine". www.archaeology.org. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
  23. ^ "Ancient remains show early human interbreeding". NBC News. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
  24. ^ "Prehistoric love child was a breed apart". Metro Newspaper UK. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
  25. ^ "Nature's 10". www.nature.com. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
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