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I thought he was Finnish, judging by the last name, but according to Wikipedia, "Pääbo was born in Stockholm and grew up with his mother, Estonian chemist Karin Pääbo."

Also interesting, "His father was biochemist Sune Bergström, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Bengt I. Samuelsson and John R. Vane in 1982"

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It's even more remarkable that Paabo never really had much of a relationship with his father but still managed to follow him in getting a Nobel Prize. Something to fuel nature-nurture debates...

Are you underestimating the choices of his mother and her capacity for creating an unprecedented intellectual atmosphere?

so this guy had nature and nurture on his side, nice!

That is the clear and smart way of phrasing it, I did not have enough clarity to make the point, thanks!

Please try not to be tedious. If you want to stir the pot, bring up the fact his mother selected a Nobel prize winner to have kids with, so clearly had bias, or something more creative.

Your statement leaves little doubt to my unsettling question, thanks for the clarity!

Or, I just pointed out that you went into the conversation with a boring assumption. It's transparent.

Yes yes, we know the problem.

Moral of the story : choose your parents wisely.

Karin Pääbo is a WW2 Estonian child refugee.

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