I read Svante Pääbo’s autobiography, which is basically a story of him continually getting the scientific equivalent of promoted, and thought it was interesting that he refuses to give his discoveries Latin species names like “Homo denisova” on the basis that they’re pretentious. So Denisovans still don’t have one.

Also, at one point he steals his labmate’s wife, and then later hires them both for his own lab.

It's a good book and his work is very significant - this is a well deserved prize.