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Hibernation, puberty and chronic kidney disease in troglodytes from Spain half a million years ago

2018-11-20

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Both animal hibernation (heterothermy) and human renal osteodystrophy are characterized by high levels of serum parathyroid hormone. To test the hypothesis of hibernation in an extinct human species, we examined the hominin skeletal collection from Sima de los Huesos, Cave Mayor, Atapuerca, Spain, for evidence of hyperparathyroidism. We studied the morphology of the fossilized bones by using macrophotography, micr...

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Literature Corpus work: 3a38882a-f137-5953-b3ec-ce4a6132301b
DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.27370v1

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