![]() ![]() London's Natural History Museum said Neanderthals are “our closest ancient human relatives”, with “Neanderthal and modern human lineages separated at least 500,000 years ago” - although the date of the divergence has also been estimated to have occurred about 650,000 years ago.Ī reconstruction of the first Neanderthal in the Netherlands, nicknamed Krijn, is on display in the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden. The Nobel Committee said Dr Paabo had “accomplished something seemingly impossible: sequencing the genome of the Neanderthal, an extinct relative of present-day humans”. ![]() Why did Paabo win the Nobel Prize?ĭr Paabo overcame the technical challenges resulting from the degradation of DNA over tens of thousands of years and became one of the founders of palaeogenetics, Her specialism is genetic analysis of wild primate populations. He said her “boyish charms” attracted him to the extent they married and had a son and a daughter, whom they are raising in Leipzig.ĭr Vigilant is now a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute in the department of primatology. ![]() In Dr Paabo's 2014 book Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes he declared that he was bisexual and had assumed he was gay until meeting US primatologist and geneticist Linda Vigilant at the University of California. Who was Alfred Nobel? Who is Linda Vigilant? ![]()
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