The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2022 has been awarded to Professor Svante Pääbo 'for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution'.
The evolutionary geneticist is seen as one of the founders of the scientific discipline of paleogenomics, and he was the first to sequence the genome of Neanderthals and discovered another type of extinct hominin, the Denisovans.
BBC News has more details.