A late Middle Pleistocene Denisovan mandible from the Tibetan Plateau

@article{Chen2019ALM,
  title={A late Middle Pleistocene Denisovan mandible from the Tibetan Plateau},
  author={Fahu Chen and Frido Welker and Chuan‐Chou Shen and Shara E. Bailey and Inga Bergmann and Simon Davis and Huan Xia and Hui Wang and Roman Fischer and Sarah E. Freidline and Tsai Luen Yu and Matthew M. Skinner and Stefanie Stelzer and Guangrong Dong and Qiaomei Fu and Guanghui Dong and Jian Wang and Dongju Zhang and Jean‐Jacques Hublin},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2019},
  volume={569},
  pages={409 - 412},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:141503768}
}
Fossil evidence indicates that Denisovans occupied the Tibetan Plateau in the Middle Pleistocene epoch and successfully adapted to this high-altitude hypoxic environments long before the regional arrival of modern Homo sapiens.
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