M. Gema Chacón
Researcher at IPHES-CERCA in Tarragona, associate professor at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili and associate researcher at the Muséum National d 'Histoire Naturelle (Paris, France)
Svante Pääbo's work has been a major revolution, bringing together disciplines from the study of the past with those of genomics, as well as providing information that has allowed us to broaden our knowledge of past species and their interaction.
Palaeogenomics, the new scientific discipline he has created, and his contributions are giving us an understanding of human evolution that until a few years ago we thought unthinkable.
This well-deserved Nobel Prize goes to medicine, but also to archaeology, palaeontology and other disciplines in the study of human evolution.