STOCKHOLM --Swedish anthropologist Svante Paabo won this year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his groundbreaking research into human evolution. Source The winner was announced on Monday at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, by Thomas Perlmann, secretary of the Nobel Committee. Paabo has led the charge in comparing the genomes of modern humans and our closest extinct relatives, the Neanderthals and the Denisovans, showing that there was mixing between the species. The Nobel Prize in Medicine was the first of a week's worth of awards to be given out. The physics prize will be announced on Tuesday, followed by the chemistry prize on Wednesday, and the literature prize on Thursday. On October 10, 2018, the Nobel Committee in Economic Sciences will announce the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2022. David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their research on the body's perception of temperature and touch. On December ...