This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Swedish scientist Svante Paabo for his discoveries about human evolution.
Paabo has led research comparing the genomes of modern humans and our closest extinct relatives, Neanderthals and Denisovans, showing that there was admixture between the species.
Thomas Perlmann, secretary of the Nobel Committee, announced the winner on Monday at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.
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The medicine prize kicks off a week of Nobel prize announcements.
It continues on Tuesday with the physics prize, with chemistry on Wednesday and literature on Thursday. The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday and the economics prize will be announced on October 10.
The prizes include a cash prize of 10 million Swedish kroner (around £800,000) and will be presented on 10 December.
The money comes from a bequest left by the prize’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, who died in 1895.
