Evolution and dispersal of mammoths across the Northern Hemisphere
@article{Lister2015EvolutionAD, title={Evolution and dispersal of mammoths across the Northern Hemisphere}, author={Adrian M. Lister and Andrei V. Sher}, journal={Science}, year={2015}, volume={350}, pages={805 - 809} }
Moving mammoths Mammoths are a particularly charismatic example of our Pleistocene megafuana. Lister and Sher took a detailed look at mammoth fossils globally and suggest that the North American Columbian mammoth, thought to have arisen from a European species, probably evolved from a more advanced Asian species. Similar dispersal events of Asian mammoths led to later colonization events in Europe and North America. Science, this issue p. 805 Detailed morphological examination of mammoth…
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