Sweden's Paabo wins medicine Nobel for discoveries on human evolution

Swedish researcher Svante Paabo won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.Paabo, director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, achieved a "seemingly impossible" feat when he sequenced the genome of the Neanderthal, an extinct relative of present-day humans, the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute said in a statement."By revealing genetic differences that distinguish all living humans from extinct hominins, his discoveries provide the basis for exploring wh…READ FULL ARTICLE