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How do we know a piece of rib is from a Denisovan? Is it just based on the age of the find?
by dyauspitr 2y ago
How do we know a piece of rib is from a Denisovan? Is it just based on the age of the find?
- aaronblohowiak 2y agoDNA
- webstrand 2y agoDNA in bones, in ideal conditions, will completely disappear after ~6.7 million years. Researchers have successfully recovered dna fragments from a 2 million year old mastodon, for instance.
- undersuit 2y agoThere are numerous ways to identify the origin of ancient remains. FTA about the non-Denisovan remains: >Unfortunately, the bones were in such small fragments that they were nearly impossible to identify by sight. Instead, the researchers analyzed the bone collagen using mass spectrometry to figure out what species they belonged to.