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Mitochondrial DNA Study Reveals 5 Clades of North American Mastodons
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Scientist extracts 33 mitochondrial from 122 different fossils to trace out mastodon families. Alberta seems confusing with three unrelated groups. https://gizmodo.com/monumental-dna-study-reveals-secrets-of-north-american-1844915753- 4 replies
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There are Eurasians, East Asians, North Americans, paleo Siberians, neosiberians and Ancient North Siberians. I'm probably confused. Read the article. https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEObRZyc-f3YxuaCQaLR-phsqFggEKg4IACoGCAowl6p7MN-zCTDlkko?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen
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The September, Volume 18, Number 4, of the issue of the SAA Archaeological Record has series of review papers about the use of DNA and genetics in studying prehistoric and historic mammals and their past interactions with human beings. The PDF file of this issue is at: http://www.saa.org/Portals/0/SAA/Publications/thesaaarchrec/SAA Record Sept 2018 WEB 9.13.18.pdf http://www.saa.org/AbouttheSociety/Publications/TheSAAArchaeologicalRecord/tabid/64/Default.aspx The papers are: Sea Change? New Directions in Marine Mammal Research by Camilla F. S
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DNA clues to why woolly mammoth died out By Helen Briggs, BBC News, March 2, 2017 http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39142941 The last, lonely woolly mammoths faced a 'genomic meltdown' By Michael Price, Science News, March 2, 2017 http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/last-lonely-woolly-mammoths-were-genetically-screwed The Woolly Mammoth's Last Stand New York Times http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39142941 The paper is: Rogers, R. L., and M. Slatkin, 2017, Excess of genomic defects in a woolly
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What Did Neanderthals Leave to Modern Humans? Some Surprises. Claudia Dreifus Interviews, John Anthony Capra, an evolutionary genomics professor January 20, 2017, New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/20/science/john-anthony-capra-neanderthals-dna-humans.html Neanderthals Were People, Too. New research shows they shared many behaviors that we long believed to be uniquely human. Why did science get them so wrong? By, Jon Mooallemjan, January 11, 2017 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/magazine/neanderthals-were-people-too.html
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From the article... "Snakes lost their limbs over 100 million years ago, but scientists have struggled to identify the genetic changes involved. A Cell paper publishing October 20 sheds some light on the process, describing a stretch of DNA involved in limb formation that is mutated in snakes. " http://phys.org/news/2016-10-snakes-lost-blueprint-limbs.html