Rise and fall of the Beringian steppe bison

• Published in: Science
• Main Authors: Shapiro, B., Drummond, A., Rambaut, A., Wilson, M., Matheus, P., Sher, A., Pybus, O., Gilbert, M., Barnes, I., Binladen, J., Willerslev, E., Hansen, A., Baryshnikov, G., Burns, J., Davydov, S., Driver, J., Froese, D., Harington, C., Keddie, G., Kosintsev, P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Amer Assoc Advancement Science 2004
• Subjects: Animals; Bison; Humans; DNA; Mitochondrial; Bayes Theorem; Sequence Analysis; Genetics; Population; Environment; Climate; Population Dynamics; Phylogeny; Time; Fossils; Human Activities; North America; Canada; Alaska; China; Genetic Variation; Davydov; Stephenson; Beringia
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/34232; https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1101074

Copyright © 2004 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science The widespread extinctions of large mammals at the end of the Pleistocene epoch have often been attributed to the depredations of humans; here we present genetic evidence that questions this assumption. We used ancient DNA a...