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Swedish geneticist Svante Pääbo has won the Nobel Prize for medicine for pioneering the use of ancient DNA to unlock secrets about human evolution. Swedish geneticist Svante Pääbo has won the Nobel ...

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Swedish geneticist Svante Pääbo has won the Nobel Prize for medicine for pioneering the use of ancient DNA to unlock secrets about human evolution. The Nobel Committee said Monday that Pääbo ...