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ArticleNature2025

Eighteen million years of diverse enamel proteomes from the East African Rift.

Daniel R Green, Kevin T Uno, Ellen R Miller, Craig S Feibel, Eipa Emmanuel Aoron, Catherine C Beck, Aryeh Grossman, Francis M Kirera, Martin M Kirinya, Louise N Leakey and 12 more

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Article in Nature, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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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

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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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

22 authors.

Daniel R GreenDepartment of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. drgreen@fas.harvard.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-9817-541X
Kevin T UnoDepartment of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. kevinuno@g.harvard.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-6882-0900
Ellen R MillerDepartment of Anthropology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4942-4475
Craig S FeibelDepartment of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2481-4044
Eipa Emmanuel AoronDepartment of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Catherine C BeckGeosciences Department, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, USA.
Aryeh GrossmanDepartment of Anatomy, College of Graduate Studies, Midwestern University, Glendale, AZ, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5978-9614
Francis M KireraMercer School of Medicine, Mercer University, Macon, GA, USA.
Martin M KirinyaTurkana Basin Institute, Nairobi, Kenya.
Louise N LeakeyTurkana Basin Institute, Nairobi, Kenya.
Cynthia Liutkus-PierceDepartment of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, USA.
Fredrick K ManthiDepartment of Earth Sciences, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya.
Emmanuel K NdiemaDepartment of Earth Sciences, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya.
Isaiah O NengoTurkana Basin Institute, Nairobi, Kenya.
Cyprian NyeteTurkana Basin Institute, Nairobi, Kenya.
John RowanDepartment of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Gabrielle A RussoDepartment of Anthropology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
William J SandersMuseum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Tara M SmileyDepartment of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
Patricia PrincehouseDepartment of Biological and Physical Sciences, Turkana University College, Lodwar, Kenya.
Natasha S VitekDepartment of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
Timothy P ClelandMuseum Conservation Institute, Smithsonian Institute, Suitland, MD, USA. clelandtp@si.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-9198-2828

Funding

Harvard’s American School of Prehistoric ResearchSmithsonian Museum Conservation Institute Federal and TrustUS National Science Foundation
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Research into the palaeobiology of extinct taxa through ancient DNA and proteomics has been mostly limited to Plio-Pleistocene fossils

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Dental EnamelFossilsProteomeAnimalsDental Enamel ProteinsKenyaMammalsPhylogenyProteomicsDental Enamel ProteinsProteome

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PMCPMC12267061

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