Swedish scientist Svante Paabo wins the Nobel Prize in Medicine: That's what he found out.

Swedish scientist Svante Paabo has won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries in human evolution. Nobel's committee said Paabo “concluded something seemingly impossible” when he listed the first Neanderthal genome and found that Homo sapiens is interrelated with Neanderthals.

Evidence of his discovery appeared for the first time in 2010 after Paabo began methods of extracting, listing, and analyzing Ancient DNA from Neanderthal bones. Thanks to his work, scientists can compare Neanderthal genomes with the genetics of living people today.

Paabo's basic search brought a completely new scientific discipline; paleologics. Uncovering the genetic differences that distinguish all living people from missing homins, his findings provide the basis for exploring what makes us unique”, the committee said.

When he first discovered his findings in 2010, Paabo said that having a first version of the Neanderthal genome completes an old dream. Paabo has worked as director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany since 1997, and is an honorary researcher at the London Museum of Natural History. /rtsh/