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03 October 2022
Correction 04 October 2022

Geneticist who unmasked lives of ancient humans wins medicine Nobel

Svante Pääbo has made stunning discoveries about human evolution using ancient DNA — and his work helped to spawn the competitive field of palaeogenomics.

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This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded for pioneering studies of human evolution that harnessed precious snippets of DNA found in fossils that are tens of thousands of years old.

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Nature 610, 16-17 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03086-9

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Correction 04 October 2022: An earlier version of this story stated that Viviane Slon worked on remains that turned out to be a human–Neanderthal hybrid. This has now been corrected.

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