In pics: Sweden's Paabo wins medicine Nobel for sequencing Neanderthal DNA

The Noble Prizes 2022 for medicine or physiology was awarded to Swedish geneticist Svante Pääbo on Monday.

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the winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Swedish scientist Svante Paabo, pictured on the screen in the background.

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Svante Paabo accepts the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences at the 2016 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony.

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Svante Pääbo’s research gave rise to an entirely new scientific discipline; paleogenomics

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Svante Pääbo was given the award for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution,

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Neanderthals were a separate species of human that populated Europe for hundreds of thousands of years until they went extinct 40,000 years ago

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In pics: Sweden's Paabo wins medicine Nobel for sequencing Neanderthal DNA

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