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

The contribution to science of Swante, the newly awarded Nobel Prize in Medicine 2022, is from all points of view essential and relevant. Palaeogenomics applied to human origin and evolution has allowed us to better understand ourselves as a genus and species. He and his team have pioneered the discovery of the oldest mitochondrial and nuclear DNA of humans in Atapuerca. His scientific contribution to the discovery of a new species, Homo denisoviensis, and to the knowledge of the genome of Homo neanderthlensis has allowed us to know the generic and specific proximity between them and our species Homo sapiens.