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The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to Swedish scientist Svante Pääbo for his discoveries about human evolution.
The Nobel Prizes, among the highest honors in science, recognize groundbreaking contributions in a variety of fields.
'Through scientific research, Svante Pääbo, the winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Medicine, achieved something seemingly impossible: sequencing the Neanderthal genome,' the Nobel committee said in a statement.
"Pääbo's discoveries have created a new understanding of our evolutionary history," the statement said, adding that this research helped establish the emerging science of "paleogenomics," or the study of genetic material from ancient pathogens.