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Svante Pääbo: searching for secrets in ancient DNA

Where did we come from? And how are we related to the ancient species that came before us? Swedish geneticist Svante Pääbo is helping us find out - and, as has recently been announced, his work has led to him winning the 2022 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”. So what did he discover?