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Svante Pääbo, (born April 20, 1955, Stockholm, Sweden), Swedish evolutionary geneticist who specialized in the study of DNA from ancient specimens and who was the first to contribute to the sequencing of the Neanderthal genome. Pääbo also discovered the hominin Denisova. For his groundbreaking research on hominin genomes and human evolution, Pääbo was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Pääbo’s parents were scientists, his mother being a chemist and his father, biochemist Sune K. Bergström, having won a share of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Pääbo pursed his own career in the sciences, enrolling ....

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