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Swedish geneticist Svante P\u00e4\u00e4bo has won the Nobel Prize for medicine for pioneering the use of ancient DNA to unlock secrets about human evolution.
His discovery was made public in 2010, after Pääbo pioneered methods to extract, sequence and analyze ancient DNA from Neanderthal bones.
Facial bones dating back 1.4 million years are the oldest human fossils ever unearthed on the European continent and could end up changing the book of h
One small variation in DNA may have helped Homo sapiens out-compete our ancient relatives
Results believed to be first compelling evidence that modern humans were cognitively better than Neanderthals