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Swedish scientist Svante Paabo wins Nobel Prize 40 years after father won same award

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A Swedish scientist who discovered that Neanderthals and humans interbred has won the Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology, 40 years after his father won the same award.
A Swedish scientist who discovered that Neanderthals and humans interbred has won the Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology, 40 years after his father won the same award.
Svante Paabo is one of the founders of the field of paleogenetics and devised numerous technical and analytical methods to garner more information from fossilised remains and was the first person to recreate the full Neanderthal genome.
The geneticist discovered that humans and Neanderthals cross-bred and that modern people harbour Neanderthal DNA to this day.
The 67-year-old academic won 10 million Swedish krona (€924,000) in prize money from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.
Prof Paabo’s father, Sune Bergstrom, won the same prize in 1982.
It means Prof Paabo is the eighth person who had a parent that was also a Nobel winner.

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