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Morphology of the Denisovan phalanx closer to modern humans than to Neanderthals. / Bennett, E. Andrew; Crevecoeur, Isabelle; Viola, Bence и др.
в: Science advances, Том 5, № 9, eaaw3950, 04.09.2019, стр. eaaw3950.Результаты исследований: Научные публикации в периодических изданиях › статья › Рецензирование
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Morphology of the Denisovan phalanx closer to modern humans than to Neanderthals
AU - Bennett, E. Andrew
AU - Crevecoeur, Isabelle
AU - Viola, Bence
AU - Derevianko, Anatoly P.
AU - Shunkov, Michael V.
AU - Grange, Thierry
AU - Maureille, Bruno
AU - Geigl, Eva Maria
PY - 2019/9/4
Y1 - 2019/9/4
N2 - 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 Homo sapiens and distinct from the Neanderthal fifth finger phalanges. Thus, unlike Denisovan molars, which display archaic characteristics not found in modern humans, the only morphologically informative Denisovan postcranial bone identified to date is suggested here to be plesiomorphic and shared between Denisovans and modern humans.
AB - 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 Homo sapiens and distinct from the Neanderthal fifth finger phalanges. Thus, unlike Denisovan molars, which display archaic characteristics not found in modern humans, the only morphologically informative Denisovan postcranial bone identified to date is suggested here to be plesiomorphic and shared between Denisovans and modern humans.
KW - GENOME SEQUENCE
KW - MOULA-GUERCY
KW - DNA
KW - REMAINS
KW - HOMININ
KW - ANCIENT
KW - ALIGNMENT
KW - ARDECHE
KW - HISTORY
KW - CAVE
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85072143816&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1126/sciadv.aaw3950
DO - 10.1126/sciadv.aaw3950
M3 - Article
C2 - 31517046
AN - SCOPUS:85072143816
VL - 5
SP - eaaw3950
JO - Science advances
JF - Science advances
SN - 2375-2548
IS - 9
M1 - eaaw3950
ER -
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