Genome secrets of extinct hominids, or can paleogenomics answer the question: humankind, who we are? Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2022
Journal: The Ukrainian Biochemical Journal
Year: 2023

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2022 was awarded to Professor Svante Pääbo, a Swedish­ paleogenetic researcher, specialist in the field of evolutionary genetics, Director of the Department of Evolutionary Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology of Leipzig (Germany), for “discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominids and human evolution”. Explaining the significance of S. Pääbo’s work, the Nobel Committee noted that “he pioneered the methods to isolat