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Paleoproteomics

The study of ancient proteins recovered from fossils, used to identify species and biological sex when DNA has not survived, notably through variants in collagen and enamel proteins.

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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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