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The complete mitochondrial DNA genome of an unknown hominin from southern Siberia

Johannes Krause, Qiaomei Fu, Jeffrey M. Good et al., 2010. Nature 464: 894-897.

The mitochondrial genome of a finger bone from Denisova Cave, Altai, diverging from the human and Neanderthal lineages about a million years ago: the first evidence of an unknown hominin, identified from DNA before any anatomy.

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The start of the mystery, a population known only from its DNA.

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Krause, J., Fu, Q., Good, J. M., Viola, B., Shunkov, M. V., Derevianko, A. P., & Pääbo, S. (2010). The complete mitochondrial DNA genome of an unknown hominin from southern Siberia. Nature 464: 894-897. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature08976
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