The Homo sapiens unraveled — A snippet from the Nobel Committee reads With his pioneering research, Svante Pääbo has accomplished something seemingly impossible: the sequencing of the genome of a Neanderthal, an extinct relative of modern humans. He has also made the sensational discovery of a previously unknown hominid — a Denisovan Who is Svante Pääbo? Svante Pääbo is a Swedish geneticist from the Max Planck…