Durban \u2013 Svaante Paabo, a Swedish scientist, has won the 113th Nobel Prize for Physiology in Medicine for his research on human evolution.<\/p>\n
Paabo, a member of the Max-Planck Institute for Science in Germany, said his first thought about winning the Nobel was that his colleagues were playing a prank on him.<\/p>\n
The 67 year-old said it was fulfilling to win the award, as his research started out as a hobby 30 years ago.<\/p>\n
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\u201cFor a long time, this research was seen as a bit of curiosity, but now it has arrived as a serious research topic, with many different groups now working on it,\u201d Paabo said during a media conference.<\/p>\n
Paabo has been credited with transforming the study of human origins, particularly around the relationship between the neanderthals and homosapiens.<\/p>\n
He studied the DNA sequences from archaeological and paleontological [fossils] remains to link humans [homosapiens] to our historic predecessors, the neanderthals.<\/p>\n
According to Juleen Zierath from the Nobel Committee, neanderthals lived in the European region around over half a million years ago, until they mixed with the homosapiens, which originated in Africa.<\/p>\n
The mix between homosapiens and neaderthals took place about 75 000 years ago in the middle-east.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe now know that we, homosapiens, carry about 1% to 2% of the DNA from neanderthals, and we know that from his (Paabo\u2019s) work,\u201d Zierath said.<\/p>\n
What makes Paabo\u2019s win really specia, is that 47 years ago, his father, Karl Sune Detlof Bergstr\u00f6m, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology.<\/p>\n
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