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

I think this is fantastic news. Svante has been at the forefront of research for many years and, in fact, has opened up the field of palaeogenomics, which involves the genomes of extinct species. He was the pioneer early in his career in developing technologies to enable such sequences. He has enabled others to follow in his footsteps and not only his laboratory, but many others, have been able to reveal the genome sequence of species that no longer exist. Today we are already talking about many different species, from extinct ancient humans to dogs, horses and so on.  

Obviously, the most important thing is that with the sequencing of the genomes of extinct human species we have learned to confirm the origin of human beings in Africa and to determine the main migration routes from Africa to the rest of the planet; but also to understand more specific aspects of how the brain develops, what differences there may have been between the brains of different species, what advantages modern humans may have had over Neanderthals... And also aspects such as the interbreeding that took place between the different species of human beings when there were Neanderthals, Denisovans and modern humans, who coexisted at the same time and in the same place and mated with each other. Without Svante's work and contributions we cannot imagine our understanding of human evolution.