🧬 New paper in Cell!
Analysis of 12 cave lion genomes shows that cave lions and modern lions may have diverged more than three times earlier than previously thought – as early as 1.7 million years ago!
AND…they interbred when temperatures dropped!
Paper: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Centre for Palaeogenetics
Craig Shuttleworth
The paper is published alongside another paper led by William Marsch and Lachie Scarsbrook, reporting genomes from two other Paleolithic dogs from the UK and Turkey. Check that out too! doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Nice one! About time someone sequenced one of these things!
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