03/10/2022 (Agence Europe) – On Monday 3 October, the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Professor Svante Pääbo, a pioneer in paleogenetics, Director of the Department of Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and coordinator of the Neanderthal Genome Sequencing Project. The researcher and his teams have also highlighted the hypothesis of a genetic transfer between Homo Sapiens Neandertalen and the first Homo Sapiens Sapiens. The...