The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Svante Paabo of Sweden for his work on human evolution.
The award committee said he had accomplished the “seemingly impossible” task of unraveling the genetic code of Neanderthals, one of our extinct relatives.
He also accomplished the “sensational” feat of discovering a previously unknown hominid called Denisova.
His discoveries helped us explore our own evolutionary history and how humans spread across the globe.
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