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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Svante Paabo for his discoveries related to the genomes of extinct hominids and human evolution.

Monday, October 3, 2022 5:47 AM ET

The Nobel committee said in a statement that Svante Paabo had "accomplished something seemingly impossible: sequencing the genome of the Neanderthal, an extinct relative of present-day humans."

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