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ArticleScience advances2019

Morphology of the Denisovan phalanx closer to modern humans than to Neanderthals.

E Andrew Bennett, Isabelle Crevecoeur, Bence Viola, Anatoly P Derevianko, Michael V Shunkov, Thierry Grange, Bruno Maureille, Eva-Maria Geigl

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Article in Science advances, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

E Andrew BennettInstitut Jacques Monod, CNRS, University Paris Diderot, 75013 Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0003-3827-0711
Isabelle CrevecoeurUMR 5199 PACEA, Université de Bordeaux, 33615 Pessac, France.
Bence ViolaDepartment of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 2S2, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-8052-707X
Anatoly P DereviankoInstitute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk RU-630090, Russia.ORCID 0000-0003-1156-8331
Michael V ShunkovInstitute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk RU-630090, Russia.ORCID 0000-0003-1388-2308
Thierry GrangeInstitut Jacques Monod, CNRS, University Paris Diderot, 75013 Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0001-8700-3092
Bruno MaureilleUMR 5199 PACEA, Université de Bordeaux, 33615 Pessac, France.ORCID 0000-0002-7616-0073
Eva-Maria GeiglInstitut Jacques Monod, CNRS, University Paris Diderot, 75013 Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0001-6376-2094
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRUniversité de Bordeaux · FRAltai State University · RUNovosibirsk State University · RUUniversity of Toronto · CA

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A fully sequenced high-quality genome has revealed in 2010 the existence of a human population in Asia, the Denisovans, related to and contemporaneous with Neanderthals. Only five skeletal remains are known from Denisovans, mostly molars; the proximal fragment of a fifth finger phalanx used to generate the genome, however, was too incomplete to yield useful morphological information. Here, we demonstrate through ancient DNA analysis that a distal fragment of a fifth finger phalanx from the Denisova Cave is the larger, missing part of this phalanx. Our morphometric analysis shows that its dimensions and shape are within the variability of

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