Million-year-old DNA provides a glimpse of mammoth evolution

Nature, Published online: 17 February 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-00348-w

DNA has been retrieved from mammoth specimens that are more than one million years old. Comparing the genomes of these animals and their descendants provides insights into the changes that occurred as one species evolved into another.

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