Nobel Prize lecture: Svante Pääbo, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2022

Svante Pääbo: The Neandertal Genome and the Evolution of Modern Humans

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2022 was awarded to Svante Pääbo "for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution".

[Dryfee]

These prizes overstate the actions of a single (very gifted and impressive) individual, who stands on the shoulders of equally gifted and impressive individuals. Nick Patterson, David Reich, Johannes Krause, Cavalli-Sforza, etc, all should be equally proud of this prize

[marijanap.r.]

I've been enjoying tremendously Mr Svante's YouTube lectures during the last few years and was very happy to see him win the prize. He approaches this topic in a way that makes it accessible and interesting to a wider audience, including audience with no scientific scientific background, like myself. Hope to see more interesting news and lectures soon.😊

[swyman]

An Anthropologist won the Nobel prize! I got my MA in Anthro in ‘77, alas I did not earn my P Hd, life got in the way, but this research is mind boggling! Thank you Nobel community!

[malekebadi]

Years and years of research and huge amount of effort and sacrifice. That's what it takes to win a Nobel prize. If you watch his lectures or documentaries from 10-15 years ago, you notice that he is constantly reporting new findings about human evolution. It was pretty impressive to see that he is relating his findings to the science behind common diseases in human species with high mortality rates. Hopefully, at some point he will discover the implications of carrying Neandertal genes on the risk of being diagnosed with cancer if such a correlation ever exists.

[edwigcarol]

Start: 13:00
I can't help but thinking at all the skilled scientific colleagues having contributed to this research and its findings.
Science has become teamwork: connected brains are powerful together. Now no single scientific can claim having won alone a prize.
The Nobel Institution has ignored that fact for decades.
This said i have a lot of respect and interest for Swante Paabo

[DannyO-jq]

I've read Svante Paabo's books and papers, and I've watched his lectures and other videos. I was so happy when he won the Nobel. He wholly deserves it. Thank You Mr. Paabo.

[mnesvat]

It's great to see there is a trend towards sharing knowledge with the public even though the subject is very scientific and needs some attention. Huge thanks for the effort.

[tonybrowneyed]

there was a past that seemed veiled forever. however, for the brilliant work done by people like prof. paabo light has been shed on it.

[bukurie]

Nobel Prize lectur❤e !Great work and give to the best for us❤Congratulation🌍

[teaburg]

thank you Svante Paabo, and team, for your contributions!

[olufemiajumobi]

Interesting mention of my tribe “Yoruba” in south-western Nigeria in Africa in comparison of genome of the French and Neandertals! Great persevering enduring work!

[DavidAMbah]

Great effort. Thanks to the funding that facilitated the research work on throwing light on the genetic evolution of man.

[siddharthkanche]

Inspiration for many thank you so much for this contribution and congratulations sir💐💞

[globalnews]

you are the best people who survive a lot of people suffering..

[willee]

Räddade mitt skolarbete efter SVT kraschade! Tack🙏🏼

[stvbrsn]

I am so pleased to see that he won the prize, I’ve followed his work for a number of years but somehow missed this!

What would please me even more would be if we could shift the paradigm from referring to Neanderthals as being “extinct, ” to thinking of ourselves rather as a hybrid species.

After all, it’s pretty obvious that some individual humans today have a higher proportion of Neanderthal DNA.

Those with a lower percentage of Neanderthal genes refer to us as “autistic.”

[platzandersonne]

Dear Mr.Pääbo, thank you and Your Kollegues vor asking the right Questions .I Wonder how Variants from VDR are different in Neandertals Denisovans and modern Humans.

[hochathanfire]

Brilliant, just bloody brilliant!! 🍿🍿🍿🥳.

[drkitlangkisuchiang]

The lady who introduced him won the Noble Prize already

[hochathanfire]

Hope we get more data on Latin America as well.