DNA Study of Behavior of Woolly Mammoth

[Oxytropidoceras]

Male mammoths more often fell into 'natural traps' and died,

DNA evidence suggests, Cell Press. November 2, 2017

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171102124901.htm

 

Patrícia Penerová, David Díez-del-Molino, Nicolas Dussex,

Tatiana Feuerborn, Johanna von Seth, Johannes van der Plicht,

Pavel Nikolskiy, Alexei Tikhonov, and Sergey Vartanyan,

2017, Genome-Based Sexing Provides Clues about Behavior

and Social Structure in the Woolly Mammoth. Current Biology.

Available online 2 November 2017, In Press, Corrected Proof

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982217312642

 

Although this is an interesting study, I am disappointed

that they did not limit their samples to bones with well

defined ages and provenance, which would have made

interpreting the results less ambiguous.

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.