New paleogenomic evidence shows that cave lions and modern lions 🦁 interbred during the Late Pleistocene. Just like Modern humans & Neanderthals, wolves & coyotes,
polar bears & brown bears. Contact, admixture, and adaptation seem to be recurring themes of the #Pleistocene
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Paleogenomic analysis of cave lions spanning >100 kya shows that extinct cave lions
formed a long-diverged evolutionary lineage from modern lions, with distinct demographic
histories and lineage-speci...
