Swedish palaeontologist Professor Svante Paabo has won the Nobel Prize for medicine for his work sequencing the genome of the Neanderthal and discovering the previously unknown hominin, Denisova.
The Nobel Committee says Professor Paabo generated a new understanding of our evolutionary history and gave rise to the new discipline of paleogenomics.
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