That, at least, is the philosophy of Svante Paabo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig.

至少，来自莱比锡马克斯普朗克进化人类研究所的斯万特帕珀是这样认为的。

Paabo said he was surprised the bones were found.

Paabo 说他很惊讶发现了这些骨头。

Svante Paabo is one of the lead researchers of the study.

Svante Paabo 是该研究的主要研究人员之一。

In 2020, research by Zeberg and Paabo found that a major genetic risk factor for severe COVID-19 came from Neanderthals.

2020年，泽伯格和帕博的研究发现，严重新冠肺炎的一个主要遗传风险因素来自尼安德特人。

In particular, Dr Paabo concentrated on ancient members of the genus Homo.

Paabo 博士特别关注人属的古代成员。

So finding an actual child of the two groups seemed like unusually good luck, Paabo said.

因此，Paabo 说，从这两个群体中找到一个真正的孩子似乎是异常幸运的事情。

In fact, the Nobel Prize in 2022 was given out to Svante Paabo for sequencing and reconstructing the genome of a Neanderthal.

事实上，2022 年的诺贝尔奖颁给了斯万特·帕博，因为他对尼安德特人的基因组进行了测序和重建。

But there has been a number of discoveries from ancient DNA, an area of study developed by Nobel Prize winner Svante Paabo.

但在诺贝尔奖获得者斯万特·帕博发展的古代DNA研究领域，已经有了许多发现。

Dr Paabo's analysis showed that Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA is indeed different from that of Homo sapiens.

Paabo 博士的分析表明，尼安德特人的线粒体 DNA 确实与智人不同。

The biggest surprise of Dr Paabo's career, though, was probably the identification, purely from its DNA, of an entire, new species, Homo denisova.

然而，Paabo 博士职业生涯中最大的惊喜可能是完全从其 DNA 中鉴定出一个完整的新物种——Homo denisova，。

Last year, for instance, the prize in physiology or medicine went to Svante Paabo, a pioneer of the study of fossil DNA, which has shed much light on human evolution.

例如， 去年的生理学或医学奖颁给了斯万特·帕博 (Svante Paabo)，他是化石 DNA 研究的先驱，该研究为人类进化提供了很多线索。

The winner—and there was only one, rather than the usual two or three—was Svante Paabo, a man who has the rare distinction of having invented an entire scientific discipline, palaeogenomics, more or less by himself.

获胜者——只有一个人，而不是通常的两三个人——是斯万特·帕博 (Svante Paabo)，这个人或多或少地靠自己发明了古基因组学这一完整的科学学科。

That may not sound like much, but it adds up: Even though only 100,000 Neanderthals ever lived, " half of the Neanderthal genome is still around, in small pieces scattered around modern humans," said Zeberg, who works closely with Paabo.

这听起来可能不是很多，但它是合理的：尽管只有10万尼安德特人曾经生活过，“一半的尼安德特人基因组仍然存在，散布在现代人周围的小碎片，”与帕博密切合作的泽伯格说。

The traces are still there, with modern Europeans having 1-2% of Neanderthal DNA and some people in Asia and Australasia as much as 6% of Denisovan DNA.Dr Paabo's career is, then, a tour de force of scientific detection.

痕迹仍然存在，现代欧洲人拥有 1-2% 的尼安德特人 DNA，亚洲和澳大拉西亚的一些人拥有多达 6% 的丹尼索瓦人 DNA。因此，Paabo 博士的职业生涯堪称科学探测的杰作。

But if nothing else, this study shows that the methods which brought Dr Paabo his prize have increased the pool of data available for such speculations in an extraordinary way.