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No signal of a super-archaic origin of the Denisovan AMBN gene, a comment on the protein affinity of <i>Homo erectus</i> and Denisovan enamel proteins

2026-08-11

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<h4>Summary</h4> Homo erectus is a species that occupies a central role in the study of human evolution. To investigate its taxonomic identity, Fu et al. 2026 extracted and sequenced enamel proteins from 6 fossils assigned to Homo erectus , originating from 3 localities in China and dated to around 400 thousand years ago. Unexpectedly, all samples possess an amino acid variant on the enamel protein ameloblastin...

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Literature Corpus work: 00682619-cc5f-5b60-95ac-c33b39f530ac
DOI: 10.64898/2026.08.11.744165

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