Extinct giant ape directly linked to the living orangutan

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Wow. This is really impressive. Very old DNA from a truly remarkable creature.

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Can anybody enlighten me as to what dental enamel proteome sequences are?

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They sequenced enamel proteins, not DNA.

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Thanks for the correction.

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Interesting that the popular article says “genetic material.” The original article is indeed about protein sequences.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1728-8

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