Svante Pääbo

The Swedish geneticist was honored for his work in sequencing the genome of the Neanderthal, an extinct relative of present-day humans.

Svante Pääbo, a Swedish geneticist who has been a director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (EVA) in Leipzig, Germany, since 1997, ...

Swedish paleogeneticist Svante Paabo, who won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for using DNA to reveal the link between humans and Neanderthals, ...

Paabo spearheaded the development of new techniques that allowed researchers to compare the genome of modern humans and that of other hominins — the ...

The Swedish geneticist used 40000-year-old bones to sequence the early humans' genome.

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Medicine/Physiology has been won by Svante Paabo, the Swedish geneticist, for his discoveries concerning human evolution.

The Nobel Assembly today awarded Swedish geneticist Svante Pääbo the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research into human origins.

[More: All Humans Are a Little Bit Neanderthal, According to New Research](https://gizmodo.com/all-humans-are-a-little-bit-neanderthal-according-to-n-1841354085) [many humans today carry Neanderthal DNA](https://gizmodo.com/humans-have-even-more-neanderthal-dna-than-we-realized-1819182225). [his 2014 memoir](https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/20/books/review/neanderthal-man-by-svante-paabo.html) Neanderthal Man, Pääbo discloses that “I had grown up as the secret extramarital son of Sune Bergstrom, a well-known biochemist who had shared the Nobel Prize in 1982.” Forty years later, Pääbo has a Nobel of his own. But Pääbo’s work has been crucial for our understanding thus far, and new technologies and methods will make the past more tangible than ever. [Last year’s winners](https://gizmodo.com/scientists-win-nobel-prize-for-figuring-out-how-we-can-1847792198) of the Prize in Physiology or Medicine were David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian, for their research on temperature and touch receptors. “Pääbo’s seminal research gave rise to an entirely new scientific discipline; paleogenomics.” [Save $120](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08PZHYWJS?asc_campaign=InlineMobile&asc_refurl=https://gizmodo.com/svante-paabo-nobel-prize-human-origins-neanderthals-1849609090&asc_source=&imprToken=d8c1c752-e71e-04ee-879&ots=1&slotNum=4&tag=kinjagizmodopromo-20)

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Pääbo's discoveries are utilized by the scientific community to better understand human evolution and migration.

“It’s important to keep in mind, however, that the work has been carried out as a broad, global collaborative effort.” “So I say, ‘congrats Svante,’ and keep up the good work because this has implications on a worldwide level. “My hat goes off to Svante,” Ian Tattersall, PhD, a globally-known paleoanthropologist and a curator emeritus with the American Museum of Natural History, told GEN. sapiens, and not their own species,” Stringer explained in the museum press release. “Until 40 years ago, it was thought that Neanderthals were a subspecies of H. Molecular paleoanthropology, his brainchild, has generated a body of otherwise unobtainable knowledge without which our appreciation of the human biological past would be much poorer.” A separate study (COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative) comprising 3,199 hospitalized patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and control individuals showed that this cluster is the major genetic risk factor for severe symptoms after SARS-CoV-2 infection and hospitalization. There is general mainstream support in the scientific community for this theory of interbreeding between archaic and modern humans. This admixture of modern human and Neanderthal genes is estimated to have occurred roughly between 50,000 and 60,000 years ago in Southern Europe. The discovery marked the first time a previously unknown early human ancestor was discovered by means of DNA analysis. The bone belonged to an extinct member of the genus Homo that had not yet been recognized, the Denisova hominen. However, archeological and fossil discoveries over much of the past half-century have put those images to rest in lieu of Neanderthals as smart hunters who weathered severe ice ages, caregivers for their sick, injured, and elderly and appear to have buried their dead, and creative in terms of weapon-making for hunting and survival and most likely creating art.