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Denisovans

An extinct archaic hominin group, closely related to Neanderthals, known from fragmentary fossils across Asia and from DNA surviving in some modern populations of Southeast Asia and Oceania.

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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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