Insights into Human Evolution through Paleogenomics
摘要
The article narrates the success story of the investigations of S Pääbo and his team. It centres around the analysis of paleogenomes of extinct hominins, our immediate ancestors, namely Denisovans and Neanderthals. These studies have uncovered genetic and genomic basis of a few characters that we have inherited from our ancestors and more on human evolution. The Nobel Committee recognized this unique contribution and the Nobel Prize of 2022 was awarded to S Pääbo.