| 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. |
