Dr. Svante Pääbo, an evolutionary biologist featured in The Human Spark, was awarded the 2009 Kistler Prize which honors “work that significantly increases knowledge and understanding of the ...

But that relied on fresh samples of pristine DNA. Prof Paabo's interest was in the old, degraded and contaminated genetic material from our ancestors. Many thought it was an impossible challenge.

Svante Pääbo made the sensational discovery of a previously unknown hominin, Denisova. Stockholm: Nobel Prize for this year in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Svante Pääbo for his ...

Paabo has been awarded the prestigious prize for having sequenced the genomes of our extinct relatives. Paabo is widely regarded as having pioneered the field of ancient DNA Nobel prize winner ...

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Ancient DNA helps reveal the tangled branches of the human family tree. Not only did our ancestors live alongside other human species, they mated with them, too. Thousands of ancient genomes have ...