The genome and diet of a 35,000‐year‐old Canis lupus specimen from the Paleolithic painted cave, Chauvet‐Pont d'Arc, France
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DOI: 10.1002/ece3.9238
Abstract: Abstract The Chauvet‐Pont‐d'Arc Cave (Ardèche, France) contains some of the oldest Paleolithic paintings recorded to date, as well as thousands of bones of the extinct cave bear, and some remains and footprints of other animals.… read more here.
Keywords: cave bear; france; pont arc; chauvet pont ... See more keywords
Middle Pleistocene genome calibrates a revised evolutionary history of extinct cave bears
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.01.073
Abstract: Palaeogenomes provide the potential to study evolutionary processes in real time, but this potential is limited by our ability to recover genetic data over extended timescales.1 As a consequence, most studies so far have focused… read more here.
Keywords: revised evolutionary; middle pleistocene; cave bear; history ... See more keywords
Additive effects of climate change and human hunting explain population decline and extinction in cave bears
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DOI: 10.1111/bor.12380
Abstract: Cave bears (Ursus spelaeus) are an iconic component of the European late Quaternary Ice Age megafauna. Recent demographic analyses based on cave bear mtDNA sequences and refined radiocarbon dating indicate that cave bear population size… read more here.
Keywords: cave bears; cave bear; climate change; population ... See more keywords