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Nobel Prize for Human Evolution work

Posted: October 3rd, 2022, 2:23 pm
by XFool
Nobel Prize goes to Svante Paabo for Neanderthal work

BBC News

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has gone to Sweden's Svante Paabo for his work on human evolution.

"The Prize committee said he achieved the seemingly impossible task of cracking the genetic code of one of our extinct relatives - Neanderthals.

He also performed the "sensational" feat of discovering the previously unknown relative - Denisovans.
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