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Ludovic Orlando
Director of Research at the CNRS, Director of the Anthropobiology and Genomics Center of Toulouse
Ludovic Orlando is a research director at the CNRS, and founder of the Anthropobiology and Genomics Center of Toulouse, which he directs. His work aims to trace the history of domesticated species and societies through DNA preserved in archaeological remains. He is internationally recognized for having found the cradles of the domestication of horses and donkeys. He is notably the author of La conquête du cheval, une histoire génétique (The Conquest of the Horse, A Genetic History), Odile Jacobe, 2023.