Reacción a "Reactions: Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for Svante Pääbo, father of palaeogenetics"

Svante Pääbo's revolutionary discovery by sequencing the genome of extinct hominids, such as the Neanderthals, was a key milestone in prehistoric studies. Sequencing the complete Neanderthal genome allowed us to learn, among many other invaluable aspects of the fossil record, that we ourselves carry between 2 and 4% of Neanderthal DNA as a result of having interbred with them. Pääbo has opened up a new line of research that is providing key data for understanding our own human evolution - a well-deserved prize!