October 3 (UPI) – A Swedish scientist has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the innovator who proved that fashionable humans once procreated with ancient Neanderthals.
This desirable discovery may lead to a new understanding, or even better treatments, of many non-unusual human diseases.
The “discoveries have generated a new understanding of our evolutionary history,” he said, while acknowledging Paabo’s recent discovery of a new hominid species, the Denisovans, in Russia’s Altai Mountains.
“In fact, it was thought to be more unlikely than DNA from 40,000-year-old bones,” said Nils-Goran Larsson, a professor of biochemistry at the Karolinska Institutet in Solna, Sweden, according to the New York Times. Paabo’s strategies will allow us to compare the settings between fresh Homo sapiens and ancient hominids. And this, in the coming years, will give us a wealth of information about human physiology. “
Neanderthals are believed to have existed for about 800,000 years. His bones were first discovered in a German quarry in 1856.
Over the years, more and more Neanderthal fossils have been unearthed, indicating that the present-day human population, in addition to early Europeans, originated in Africa, as researchers have suggested for years.
“This is a basic clinical discovery,” Larsson said. “It identifies the very small and sparse differences between humans anatomically, Homo sapiens and extinct hominins. “