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Enigmatic hominin species studied using 2 million-year-old proteins

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A large international team has found a way to get some information about the genetics out of far older remains.

They extracted fragments of enamel proteins from the teeth of fossils of Paranthropus robustus.

They used them to test whether the remains truly belonged to one species, despite differences in size.

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