Stay outta my forest savannah-dude Africa’s forest and savannah elephants are very likely two separate species. Nadin Rohland’s group summarized their study and its conclusions, based on shotgun sequencing the DNA from one individual of each animal: We have used a combination of modern DNA sequencing and targeted PCR amplification to obtain a large data [...]
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