Swedish geneticist Svante Pääbo was on October 3 awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine category by the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute.
The top honour was given to Pääbo, 67, “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution", a statement posted on the official website stated.
Through his research, Pääbo "accomplished something seemingly impossible: sequencing the genome of the Neanderthal, an extinct relative of present-day humans", it added.
The Swedish geneticist also made the key discovery of a previously unknown hominin, Denisova, the statement further said.
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