Swedish paleogeneticist Svante Pääbo, 67, won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for “discoveries that underpin our understanding of how modern day people evolved from extinct ancestors at the dawn of human history” including sequencing the first Neanderthel genome, Reuters reported on Tuesday, October 4, 2022 (read stories here and here).
Pääbo, the son of a previous Nobel laureate, discovered among other things that modern humans have Neanderthal DNA from early interbreeding, and also used DNA sequencing to identify the Denisovan homin, a previously unknown human species.
Read his biography and curriculum vitae here.