Publication Date:
2001-11-03
Description:
The mammoth lineage provides an example of rapid adaptive evolution in response to the changing environments of the Pleistocene. Using well-dated samples from across the mammoth's Eurasian range, we document geographical and chronological variation in adaptive morphology. This work illustrates an incremental (if mosaic) evolutionary sequence but also reveals a complex interplay of local morphological innovation, migration, and extirpation in the origin and evolution of a mammalian species. In particular, northeastern Siberia is identified as an area of successive allopatric innovations that apparently spread to Europe, where they contributed to a complex pattern of stasis, replacement, and transformation.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lister, A M -- Sher, A V -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2001 Nov 2;294(5544):1094-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK. a.lister@ucl.ac.uk〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11691991" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Africa
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Animals
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*Biological Evolution
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*Elephants/anatomy & histology/physiology
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Europe
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*Fossils
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Molar/anatomy & histology
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Paleodontology
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Siberia
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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