1.3-Million-Year-Old Mammoth DNA Rewrites Evolutionary History

The study tracks mammoth evolution over a million years using mitogenomes, showing shifts in diversity and lineage tied to Pleistocene demographic events. A recent genomic study has revealed previously unknown genetic diversity in mammoth lineages that spans more than a million years, offering new perspectives on their evolutionary history. Researchers successfully extracted and analyzed 34 [...]

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