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Svante Pääbo: The power of ancient genomics and archaeology
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2022
7. October 2022 Guest article by Tom Higham
University of Vienna archaeologist Tom Higham congratulates his colleague with whom he has been working together on many projects over the years. He explains Svante Pääbo's key achievements and what the Nobel Prize means for the people working in the field.
Paleogeneticist Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) was announced this week as the winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work uncovering the genomes of extinct hominins and the implications of this for understanding human evolution.
For researchers like us, who collaborate with him and his team in working on aspects of human evolution, palaeoanthropology and archaeological science, this is a moment to cherish and celebrate.
Palaeoanthropology and human evolution are not, of course, su
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Svante Pääbo
Swedish geneticist (born 1955)
Svante PääboForMemRSKmstkNO (Swedish:[ˈsvânːtɛ̂ˈpʰɛ̌ːbʊ̂];[3] born 20 April 1955) is a Swedish geneticist and Nobel Laureate who specialises in the field of evolutionary genetics.[4] As one of the founders of paleogenetics, he has worked extensively on the Neanderthal genome.[5][6] In 1997, he became founding director of the Department of Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.[7][8][9] Since 1999, he has been an honorary professor at Leipzig University; he currently teaches molecular evolutionary biology at the university.[10][11] He is also an adjunct professor at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan.[12]
In 2022, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution".[13&# • The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany was abuzz in the summer of 2006, and not just because the city was one of the hosts of the World Cup soccer tournament. On July 20, 2006, the institute announced the början of one of the most ambitious research projects in recent years: sequencing the complete genome of a Neanderthal. These ancient hominids, who shared the Earth with modern humans before dying out 30,000 years ago, företräda humans' closest relative. If their genome can be deciphered, then combined with the recently completed genome of chimpanzees, humans' closest living relative, the road may finally be paved for understanding the origins of humans and what makes us unique. If that happens, the scientist Svante efternamn, elected to the National Academy of Sciences as a utländsk associate in 2004 and the Director of the Max Planck Institute's Department of Evolutionary Biology, would be very pleased. Since his days in gr Profile of Svante Pääbo