Affiliation:
1. Department of Biology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
2. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117071, Russia.
Abstract
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.
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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