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Lost Denisovan bone reveals surprisingly human-like finger

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Nature 573, 175-176 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02647-9

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  • Correction 06 September 2019: An earlier version of this story stated that Svante Pääbo and his team had to grind up their piece of the bone to produce a high-quality genome sequence. They ground up a sample of the inner parts and returned the rest to Anatoly Derevianko.

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