| 1. Svante Pääbo worked as a teacher and part-time researcher at the University of California in 1979. |
| 2. In 1980, he returned to Sweden to pursue a PhD in Molecular Biology at the University of Uppsala after leaving the University of California. |
| 3. In 1986, Svante Pääbo authored research papers aiming to find a genetic link between Homo Sapiens and ancient human species. |
| 4. Svante and his team successfully extracted DNA from a 10,000-year-old Neanderthal body in 1997. |
| 5. In 2014, Svante published a book called "Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes." |
| 6. On 3 October 2022, the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden awarded Svante Pääbo the Nobel Prize for his work on extinct hominin genomes and human evolution. |
| 7. In 1985, Pääbo extracted nuclear DNA from a 2400-year-old Egyptian mummy. |
| 8. In 1997, Svante Pääbo and his team successfully extracted and sequenced mitochondrial DNA from a Neanderthal specimen found in the Feldhofer grotto in the Neander valley. |
| 9. In 2006, he initiated the Neandertal Genome Project at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. |
| 10. In 2010, his team published a draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome in the journal Science, concluding interbreeding between Neanderthals and Eurasian humans. |
| 11. Pääbo's team discovered the Denisovans, a previously unknown extinct human group, from a genome sequence of a bone found in Denisova Cave in Southern Siberia. |
| 12. In 2013, the researchers completed the project with the publication of a high-quality version of the genome of a 50,000-year-old Neanderthal. |
