Svante Paabo wins 2022 Nobel Prize in Medicine for decoding ancient DNA

Svante Paabo wins 2022 Nobel Prize in Medicine for decoding ancient DNA: Swedish geneticist, Svante Paabo (67) has won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries on human evolution. This discovery provides understanding of how modern day humans evolved from extinct ancestors.

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He performed his prize-winning studies in Germany at the University of Munich and at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. Paabo is the son of Sune Bergstrom, who won the Nobel prize in medicine in 1982.