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A late Middle Pleistocene Denisovan mandible from the Tibetan Plateau | |
Chen, Fahu1,2,3; Welker, Frido3,4,5; Shen, Chuan-Chou6,7; Bailey, Shara E.4,8; Bergmann, Inga4; Davis, Simon9; Xia, Huan3; Wang, Hui10,11; Fischer, Roman9; Freidline, Sarah E.4; Yu, Tsai-Luen6,7; Skinner, Matthew M.4,12; Stelzer, Stefanie4,13; Dong, Guangrong3; Fu, Qiaomei14; Dong, Guanghui3; Wang, Jian3; Zhang, Dongju3; Hublin, Jean-Jacques4,15 | |
2019-05-16 | |
发表期刊 | NATURE |
ISSN | 0028-0836 |
卷号 | 569期号:7756页码:409-+ |
通讯作者 | Chen, Fahu([email protected]) ; Zhang, Dongju([email protected]) ; Hublin, Jean-Jacques([email protected]) |
摘要 | Denisovans are members of a hominin group who are currently only known directly from fragmentary fossils, the genomes of which have been studied from a single site, Denisova Cave(1-3) in Siberia. They are also known indirectly from their genetic legacy through gene flow into several low-altitude East Asian populations(4,5) and high-altitude modern Tibetans(6). The lack of morphologically informative Denisovan fossils hinders our ability to connect geographically and temporally dispersed fossil hominins from Asia and to understand in a coherent manner their relation to recent Asian populations. This includes understanding the genetic adaptation of humans to the high-altitude Tibetan Plateau(7,8), which was inherited from the Denisovans. Here we report a Denisovan mandible, identified by ancient protein analysis(9,10), found on the Tibetan Plateau in Baishiya Karst Cave, Xiahe, Gansu, China. We determine the mandible to be at least 160 thousand years old through U-series dating of an adhering carbonate matrix. The Xiahe specimen provides direct evidence of the Denisovans outside the Altai Mountains and its analysis unique insights into Denisovan mandibular and dental morphology. Our results indicate that archaic hominins occupied the Tibetan Plateau in the Middle Pleistocene epoch and successfully adapted to high-altitude hypoxic environments long before the regional arrival of modern Homo sapiens. |
DOI | 10.1038/s41586-019-1139-x |
关键词[WOS] | PERMANENT HUMAN OCCUPATION ; GENOME SEQUENCE ; HIGH-PRECISION ; HOMININ ; CAVE ; BONE ; DEAMIDATION ; MORPHOLOGY ; GLUTAMINE ; ANCESTRY |
收录类别 | SCI |
语种 | 英语 |
资助项目 | Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences ; Pan-Third Pole Environment Study for a Green Silk Road (Pan-TPE)[XDA20040000] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41620104007] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41771225] ; Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition[4] ; Ministry of Science and Technology[107-2119-M-002-051] ; Ministry of Education, Taiwan[107L901001] ; Max Planck Society |
项目资助者 | Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences ; Pan-Third Pole Environment Study for a Green Silk Road (Pan-TPE) ; National Natural Science Foundation of China ; Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition ; Ministry of Science and Technology ; Ministry of Education, Taiwan ; Max Planck Society |
WOS研究方向 | Science & Technology - Other Topics |
WOS类目 | Multidisciplinary Sciences |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000468123700039 |
出版者 | NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/9705 |
专题 | 中科院古脊椎所(2000年以后) |
通讯作者 | Chen, Fahu; Zhang, Dongju; Hublin, Jean-Jacques |
作者单位 | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, CAS Ctr Excellence Tibetan Plateau Earth Sci, Key Lab Alpine Ecol LAE, 1 separate add, Beijing, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Tibetan Plateau Res, Beijing, Peoples R China 3.Lanzhou Univ, Coll Earth & Environm Sci, Key Lab Western Chinas Environm Syst, Minist Educ, Lanzhou, Gansu, Peoples R China 4.Max Planck Inst Evolutionary Anthropol, Dept Human Evolut, Leipzig, Germany 5.Univ Copenhagen, Dept Biol, Copenhagen, Denmark 6.Natl Taiwan Univ, Dept Geosci, High Precis Mass Spectrometry & Environm Change L, Taipei, Taiwan 7.Natl Taiwan Univ, Res Ctr Future Earth, Taipei, Taiwan 8.NYU, Dept Anthropol, Ctr Study Human Origins, New York, NY 10003 USA 9.Univ Oxford, Target Discovery Inst, Oxford, England 10.Fudan Univ, Inst Archaeol Sci, Dept Cultural Heritage & Museol, Shanghai, Peoples R China 11.Gansu Prov Inst Cultural Relics & Archaeol Res, Lanzhou, Gansu, Peoples R China 12.Univ Kent, Sch Anthropol & Conservat, Canterbury, Kent, England 13.Karl Landsteiner Univ Hlth Sci, Dept Anat & Biomech, Krems An Der Donau, Austria 14.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Ctr Excellence Life & Paleoenvironm, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing, Peoples R China 15.Coll France, Chaire Int Paleoanthropol, Paris, France |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Chen, Fahu,Welker, Frido,Shen, Chuan-Chou,et al. A late Middle Pleistocene Denisovan mandible from the Tibetan Plateau[J]. NATURE,2019,569(7756):409-+. |
APA | Chen, Fahu.,Welker, Frido.,Shen, Chuan-Chou.,Bailey, Shara E..,Bergmann, Inga.,...&Hublin, Jean-Jacques.(2019).A late Middle Pleistocene Denisovan mandible from the Tibetan Plateau.NATURE,569(7756),409-+. |
MLA | Chen, Fahu,et al."A late Middle Pleistocene Denisovan mandible from the Tibetan Plateau".NATURE 569.7756(2019):409-+. |
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