Meet Svante Paabo, the 2022 Nobel Prize winner in Medicine. His father won it in 1982

Svante was awarded Nobel Prize in medicine for his discoveries on human evolution

Paabo proved modern humans share DNA with extinct relatives Neanderthals and Denisovans.

He provided insights into immune system and what makes us unique compared with our extinct cousins.

Paabo is the son of Sune Bergstrom, who won the Nobel prize in medicine in 1982.

His study compared the genome of modern humans and that of other hominins