Toomas Kivisild


Toomas Kivisild, is an Estonian geneticist. He graduated with Ph.D. from University of Tartu in 2000 and is currently University Reader in Human Evolutionary Genetics at Cambridge University, Division of Biological Anthropology, as well as a senior researcher at the Estonian Biocentre. His research focuses mainly on the evolution of the human species as seen through population genetics. He coauthored the second edition of the textbook Human Evolutionary Genetics.

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