Palaeontologist Professor Svante Paabo wins Nobel Prize in medicine

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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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What has that got to do with medicine?

Nice to see the award go to a persistent hard-working scientist, not the corporatised & politically motivated 'the Science™'

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