The Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology was awarded on Monday to the Swede Svante Pääbo, 67, for the sequencing of the genome of Neanderthal man and the foundation of paleogenomics.
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By revealing the genetic differences that distinguish all living humans from extinct hominids, his findings provided the basis for exploring what makes us humans such unique beings
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