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A late Middle Pleistocene Denisovan mandible from the Tibetan Plateau

Fahu Chen, Frido Welker, Chuan-Chou Shen et al., 2019. Nature 569: 409-412.

A mandible from Baishiya Karst Cave, Xiahe, Gansu, identified as Denisovan by ancient proteins and dated to at least 160,000 years by U-series on adhering carbonate: the first Denisovan outside the Altai and the first jaw.

MYS0CZKZ4KE5BD4 · mystery · click to copyMWho were the Denisovans? The Harbin "Dragon Man" craniumArticleCopy of Xiahe mandibledoi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1139-xChecked against the original0

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The first fossil tying Denisovan molecules to anatomy.

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Chen, F., Welker, F., Shen, C. C., Bailey, S. E., Bergmann, I., Davis, S., Xia, H., & Wang, H. (2019). A late Middle Pleistocene Denisovan mandible from the Tibetan Plateau. Nature 569: 409-412. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1139-x
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