Svante Pääbo

Nobel Prize lecture

The Neandertal Genome and the Evolution of Modern Humans

Svante Pääbo delivered his Nobel Prize lecture at Aula Medica, Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm on 7 December 2022. He was introduced by Professor Gunilla Karlsson Hedestam, member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine.

The Neandertal Genome and the Evolution of Modern Humans: Lecture slides (pdf)
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