Svante Pääbo Wins Nobel Prize For Discoveries Concerning Extinct Hominins' Genomes, Human Evolution

Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo has won this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution. Through his pioneering research, Svante Pääbo accomplished something seemingly impossible: sequencing the genome of the Neanderthal, an extinct relative of present-day humans. He also made the sensational discovery of a previous