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NEW DELHI: The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded on Monday to Svante Paabo, a Swedish-born scientist who spent decades trying to extract DNA from 40,000-year-old bones, culminating in the unveiling of the Neanderthal genome in 2010.
The publication of that genome opened the door to investigating questions that had bedevilled paleontologists since Neanderthal fossils were first found in a German quarry in 1856: how did those early humans relate to modern ones, and what made…
The publication of that genome opened the door to investigating questions that had bedevilled paleontologists since Neanderthal fossils were first found in a German quarry in 1856: how did those early humans relate to modern ones, and what made…
