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Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday.
瑞典遗传学家斯万特·帕博于周一被授予2022年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。
The 67-year-old won for discoveries that underpin our understanding of how modern day humans evolved from extinct ancestors.
这位67岁的科学家的发现，加强了我们对现代人类如何从已灭绝的祖先演化而来的理解。
Paabo is director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
帕博是德国莱比锡马克斯·普朗克进化人类学研究所的主任。
Thomas Perlmann, secretary for the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, delivered the news by phone.
诺贝尔生理学或医学奖委员会秘书长托马斯·珀尔曼通过电话，向帕博传达了他获奖的这一消息。
"He was overwhelmed, he was speechless and very happy and asked if he could tell anyone and asked if he could tell his wife and I said that was ok."
“他当时激动得说不出话来，非常高兴，他还问我能不能把这个消息告诉别人、告诉他的妻子，我说没问题。”
Paabo, the son of a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist, has been credited with transforming the study of human origins.
作为一位获得过诺贝尔奖的生物化学家的儿子，帕博被认为改变了对人类起源的研究。
He developed ways to allow for the examination of DNA sequences from archaeological and paleontological remains, reaching back to the dawn of human history.
他发明了一些方法来对考古和古生物遗迹的DNA序列进行测序，这可以追溯到人类历史的开端。
His crowning achievement is considered to be the methods he developed to allow for the sequencing of an entire Neanderthal genome.
人们认为，他的最高成是发明了对尼安德特人的整个基因组进行测序的方法。
This research, once considered impossible, showed that certain genes of Neanderthal origin are preserved in the genomes of people today.
这项曾经被认为是不可能的研究表明，尼安德特人的某些基因保存在了当今人类的基因组中。
The prize, among the most prestigious in the scientific world, is awarded by the Nobel Assembly of Sweden's Karolinska Institute and is worth just over $900,000.
诺贝尔生理学或医学奖是科学界最负盛名的奖项之一，由瑞典卡罗林斯卡学院的诺贝尔大会负责颁发，奖金超过了90万美元。
