Svante Pääbo: 2017 Breakthrough Prize Symposium

[@3kidsdadny]

Well done Svante! Here’s a Nobel for you today!🎉

[@curiousreporter4292]

Congratulations for the NOBEL Prize 🙏

[@mayavia75]

Congratulation ! You get Novel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

[@Simonjose7258]

Stretto Dardanelli... How do you play?

[@philippa5004]

Thanks for posting

[@Simonjose7258]

.... although he does say "our closest relative". It isn't "our closest relative" if we are sub-Saharan African... But maybe he's speaking to an all non-sub-Saharan African audience?

[@TomeOfKnowledge009]

To call them ancestors is not totally true. Non africans are hybrids of cro magnon (a homo sapien sapien) and other homonids like denisovan and neanderthal. To call this hybrid a homo sapien sapien is also not entirely true. Africans are true homo sapien sapiens, they are not hybrids of separate hominids species that share a common ancestor. Cro magnon was the sole hominid dna that non africans posses that could truly be called homo sapien sapien. The other genetic contributors are not modern humans, they are homo sapien neanderthalis, and homo sapien densovan. But these hybrids are still someho considered sapien sapien. Makes you wonder. Its like they labeled a variety of species of hominids as all the same (homo sapien sapien) so no one would feel bad.

[@routeman680]

@@TomeOfKnowledge009 There is no word "sapien". It is "sapiens", Latin meaning knowing or wise. "Homo sapiens" was the name assigned to our species by Linnaeus in his classification of living things.

[@Mdebacle]

@@TomeOfKnowledge009 The DNA of Neanderthals and Denisovans was 15-16ths human and 1-16th chimpanzee. No human has any steenking Neanderthal DNA. Eurasian humans are not hybrids. Neanderthals and Denisovans were hybrids.

[@lf1496]

We Africans are Homo Sapiens humans not NEANDERTHAL descendants. That is a separate species that is NOT human, they have a separate evolutionary path. We are Homo Sapiens not a mixture of this other species which is very problematic. It's brain function and tendency towards violence and aggression is very disturbing 😳 I've seen this man before all the hype detail the cannibalism, violence and hostile behaviour against Homo Sapiens. This should be studied if you look at the culture of Neandethal descendants 😱

[@danielfahrenheit4139]

when a dog lets u rub its stomach it signifies trust because its exposing vital organsSorry I thought this was Dog Whisperer!