Denisovan DNA in Late Pleistocene sediments from Baishiya Karst Cave on the Tibetan Plateau-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Denisovan DNA in Late Pleistocene sediments from Baishiya Karst Cave on the Tibetan Plateau

Published:2020-10-30 Issue:6516 Volume:370 Page:584-587
ISSN:0036-8075
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Author:

Zhang Dongju¹²³^ORCID,Xia Huan¹^ORCID,Chen Fahu¹²^ORCID,Li Bo⁴⁵^ORCID,Slon Viviane⁶^ORCID,Cheng Ting¹^ORCID,Yang Ruowei⁷⁸,Jacobs Zenobia⁴⁵^ORCID,Dai Qingyan⁷,Massilani Diyendo⁶^ORCID,Shen Xuke¹,Wang Jian¹⁹,Feng Xiaotian⁷,Cao Peng⁷,Yang Melinda A.¹⁰^ORCID,Yao Juanting¹,Yang Jishuai¹^ORCID,Madsen David B.¹¹¹^ORCID,Han Yuanyuan¹,Ping Wanjing⁶,Liu Feng⁶,Perreault Charles¹²¹³,Chen Xiaoshan¹,Meyer Matthias⁶^ORCID,Kelso Janet⁶^ORCID,Pääbo Svante⁶^ORCID,Fu Qiaomei⁷⁸^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China.

2. Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology (LAE), CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences and Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing 100101, China.

3. Frontier Center for Eco-environment and Climate Change in Pan-third Pole Regions, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China.

4. Centre for Archaeological Science, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales 2522, Australia.

5. Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales 2522, Australia.

6. Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig 04103, Germany.

7. Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, CAS, Beijing 100044, China.

8. Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China.

9. School of Earth Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China.

10. Department of Biology, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA 23173, USA.

11. Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada–Reno, Reno, NV 89557, USA.

12. School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA.

13. Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA.

Abstract

A timeline of cave dwellers in sediment Two archaic lineages overlapped with modern humans outside of Africa: the well-studied Neanderthals and their more mysterious cousins, the Denisovans. Denisovan remains are rare, being limited to Denisovan Cave in Siberia and a putative, undated jaw from Tibet. However, there is evidence for multiple introgressions from Denisovans into modern-day humans, especially in Australasian populations. By examining the sediment of Baishiya Karst Cave located on a high plateau in Tibet, Zhang et al. identified ancient mitochondrial DNA from Denisovans indicating their presence at about 100 thousand, 60 thousand, and possibly 45 thousand years ago. This finding provides insight into the timing and distribution of Denisovans in Asia and extends the time of occupation of the Tibetan plateau by hominins. Science , this issue p. 584

Funder

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Zhengzhou University

CAS Strategic Priority Research Program

Australian Research Council Future Fellowship

Strategic Innovation Fund of the Max Planck Society

Australian Research Council Future Fellowships

Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program

Tencent Foundation through the EXPLORER PRIZE

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)