Svante Paabo wins Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on evolution

This year’s Nobel Prize has gone to Svante Paabo, a scientist who is credited with developing methodologies to extract 'clean' DNA from human fossils.

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These methodologies enabled the 67-year-old Svante Paabo, a Swedish scientist based in Germany, to piece together the genome sequence of the Neanderthal.

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Neanderthal is modern human's cousin species that went extinct about 30,000 years ago.

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What Paabo had accomplished was 'seemingly impossible', the Nobel Prize committee said in its citation.

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Establishing the genetic evolution of human beings can have important implications for medical science, the reason why Paabo's work has been awarded.

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