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ArticleNature2021

Pleistocene sediment DNA reveals hominin and faunal turnovers at Denisova Cave.

Elena I Zavala, Zenobia Jacobs, Benjamin Vernot, Michael V Shunkov, Maxim B Kozlikin, Anatoly P Derevianko, Elena Essel, Cesare de Fillipo, Sarah Nagel, Julia Richter and 9 more

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Article in Nature, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers.

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56citing papers in PubMed
144.0field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

56 citing papers in PubMed, 156 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

19 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.

Elena I ZavalaMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. elena_zavala@eva.mpg.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7687-5370
Zenobia JacobsCentre for Archaeological Science, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. zenobia@uow.edu.au.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5424-5837
Benjamin VernotMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Michael V ShunkovInstitute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Novosibirsk, Russia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1388-2308
Maxim B KozlikinInstitute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Novosibirsk, Russia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5082-3345
Anatoly P DereviankoInstitute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Novosibirsk, Russia.
Elena EsselMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Cesare de FillipoMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Sarah NagelMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Julia RichterMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Frédéric RomagnéMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Anna SchmidtMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Bo LiCentre for Archaeological Science, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4186-4828
Kieran O'GormanCentre for Archaeological Science, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2231-2457
Viviane SlonMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Janet KelsoMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3618-322X
Svante PääboMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4670-6311
Richard G RobertsCentre for Archaeological Science, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. rgrob@uow.edu.au.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0128-4119
Matthias MeyerMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. mmeyer@eva.mpg.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4760-558X
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · DEAustralian Research Council · AUInstitute of Archaeology and Ethnography · RUTel Aviv University · ILUniversity of Wollongong · AU

Funding

European Research Council
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Denisova Cave in southern Siberia is the type locality of the Denisovans, an archaic hominin group who were related to Neanderthals

Indexed as

CavesAnimalsArchaeologyDNA, AncientDNA, MitochondrialFossilsGeologic SedimentsHistory, AncientHominidaeNeanderthalsSiberiaDNA, AncientDNA, Mitochondrial

Identifiers

PMID34163072
PMCPMC8277575
OpenAlexW3175387722

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