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“Did you know Peale’s mastodon is in Germany?!,” I asked in emails and in a post on social media. No one seemed to have known, with responses generally disbelieving.
Allison M. Stagg
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Politische Medienbildung und Netzpolitik
Der vorliegende Beitrag befasst sich mit der Schnittmenge von Politischer Bildung und Medienbildung und argumentiert die spezifische Relevanz von Netzpolitiken als deren Kern.
Valentin Dander
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Mammut pacificus sp. nov., a newly recognized species of mastodon from the Pleistocene of western North America [PDF]
A new species of mastodon from the Pleistocene of western North America, Mammut pacificus sp. nov. is herein recognized, with specimens identified throughout California and from two localities in southern Idaho.
Alton C. Dooley Jr +5 more
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IntroductionThe end Pleistocene was a time of considerable ecological upheaval. Recent work has explored the megafauna extinction’s role in altering ecosystem processes.
Melissa I. Pardi +4 more
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The risk of developing cancer is correlated with body size and lifespan within species. Between species, however, there is no correlation between cancer and either body size or lifespan, indicating that large, long-lived species have evolved enhanced ...
Juan M Vazquez, Vincent J Lynch
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The First Quarterly Report Covering the Quarter Ending June 30, 1939 for the State-Wide Paleontologic-Mineralogic Survey [PDF]
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Works Progress Administration
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Attempted DNA extraction from a Rancho La Brea Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi): prospects for ancient DNA from asphalt deposits. [PDF]
Fossil-bearing asphalt deposits are an understudied and potentially significant source of ancient DNA. Previous attempts to extract DNA from skeletons preserved at the Rancho La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles, California, have proven unsuccessful, but it ...
Farrell, Aisling B +5 more
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Proboscidean mitogenomics: chronology and mode of elephant evolution using mastodon as outgroup.
We have sequenced the complete mitochondrial genome of the extinct American mastodon (Mammut americanum) from an Alaskan fossil that is between 50,000 and 130,000 y old, extending the age range of genomic analyses by almost a complete glacial cycle.
Nadin Rohland +5 more
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Pleistocene population dynamics can inform the consequences of current climate change. This phylogeography of 35 complete American mastodon mitochondrial genomes suggests distinct lineages in this species repeatedly expanded northwards and then went ...
Emil Karpinski +18 more
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