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ArticleNature2019

A late Middle Pleistocene Denisovan mandible from the Tibetan Plateau.

Fahu Chen, Frido Welker, Chuan-Chou Shen, Shara E Bailey, Inga Bergmann, Simon Davis, Huan Xia, Hui Wang, Roman Fischer, Sarah E Freidline and 9 more

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Article in Nature, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 122 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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Who cites it

122 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

19 authors.

Fahu Chen *Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology (LAE), CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences and Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. fhchen@itpcas.ac.cn.
Frido Welker *Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
Chuan-Chou Shen *High-Precision Mass Spectrometry and Environment Change Laboratory (HISPEC), Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, China.
Shara E BaileyDepartment of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Inga BergmannDepartment of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Simon DavisTarget Discovery Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Huan XiaKey Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
Hui WangDepartment of Cultural Heritage and Museology, Institute of Archaeological Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Roman FischerTarget Discovery Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Sarah E FreidlineDepartment of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Tsai-Luen YuHigh-Precision Mass Spectrometry and Environment Change Laboratory (HISPEC), Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, China.
Matthew M SkinnerDepartment of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Stefanie StelzerDepartment of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Guangrong DongKey Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
Qiaomei FuKey Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Guanghui DongKey Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
Jian WangKey Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
Dongju ZhangKey Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China. djzhang@lzu.edu.cn.
Jean-Jacques HublinDepartment of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. hublin@eva.mpg.de.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Denisovans are members of a hominin group who are currently only known directly from fragmentary fossils, the genomes of which have been studied from a single site, Denisova Cave

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FossilsAltitudeAnimalsCavesHominidaeHuman MigrationHumansMandiblePhylogenyTibetTooth

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PMID31043746

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