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Baishiya Karst Cave

A cave on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau in China that has yielded Denisovan remains including a partial mandible and a rib fragment.

Known aliases

  • Xiahe

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No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.

Current clusters

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The first Denisovan forearm bone came out of a 22-sample shortlist

Fu Qiaomei's team could not get DNA out of the Bianfu Cave bones, so protein variants had to carry the identification, and a morphological pre-screen had to make the mass spectrometry affordable at a site holding more than 64,000 fragments.

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Reality

Evidence88
Adoption30
Hype gap+5
Incentives35
Confidence80