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ArticleNature2022

Age of the oldest known Homo sapiens from eastern Africa.

Céline M Vidal, Christine S Lane, Asfawossen Asrat, Dan N Barfod, Darren F Mark, Emma L Tomlinson, Amdemichael Zafu Tadesse, Gezahegn Yirgu, Alan Deino, William Hutchison and 2 more

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Article in Nature, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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32citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

32 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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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

12 authors.

Céline M VidalDepartment of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. cv325@cam.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9606-4513
Christine S LaneDepartment of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9206-3903
Asfawossen AsratSchool of Earth Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6312-8082
Dan N BarfodNEIF Argon Isotopes, University of Glasgow, SUERC, Glasgow, UK.
Darren F MarkNEIF Argon Isotopes, University of Glasgow, SUERC, Glasgow, UK.
Emma L TomlinsonTrinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
Amdemichael Zafu TadesseDepartment of Geosciences, Environment and Society, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
Gezahegn YirguSchool of Earth Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Alan DeinoBerkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley, CA, USA.
William HutchisonSchool of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5456-3277
Aurélien MounierHistoire Naturelle de l'Homme Préhistorique (HNHP, UMR 7194), MNHN/CNRS/UPVD, Musée de l'Homme, Paris, France.
Clive OppenheimerDepartment of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4506-7260

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/S033505/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Efforts to date the oldest modern human fossils in eastern Africa, from Omo-Kibish

Indexed as

Geologic SedimentsHominidaeAfrica, EasternAnimalsEthiopiaFossilsHumans

Identifiers

PMID35022610
PMCPMC8791829

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