The answer came after years of painstaking work, when material extracted from the leg of a Neanderthal and the fingerbone of a Denisovan, an apparent sister species, yielded readable DNA.
"I work with very traditional materials, do painstaking research and strive for historic accuracy".
My walk through the plant witnessed not only the painstaking process by which materials are separated, but how operations management, the constant adjustment of internal returns on investment and cutting edge technology all have a role in reducing HP's environmental footprint and boosting its bottom line.
Species of Sulawesi macaques were elevated from subspecies to species not through taxonomic sleight of hand, but rather through painstaking examination of novel material.
It took percussionist and instrument-maker Thomas Meixner three painstaking years: each obscure material had to be sourced, each exact tuning replicated.
She chose her material with painstaking care, writing some of the best of it herself, and when she sang a song, it usually stayed sung.
Many of Friedman's works take an inordinate amount of painstaking work, often using ludicrous materials: tooth-picks, drinking-straw wrappers, pillow-stuffing, pubic hair, soap.
Eddie Quinn, framework manager for the Canal & River Trust, said repairing and maintaining the waterways was a "painstaking task", and required traditional materials and methods to preserve "this vital part of our heritage".
He said the information was provided by the office of the Police Ombudsman, Dr Michael Maguire, following the near conclusion of a "painstaking review of all available material".
"Many of these artists have lived tough lives, but their work shows how, with vision and, often in painstaking detail, they have transformed simple materials into objects of great beauty and spiritual power".
