DNA techniques, analytical methods and palaeoclimatic studies are greatly advancing our
knowledge of the global distribution of genetic diversity, and how it evolved. Such …

Even before the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species, the perception of evolutionary
change has been a tree-like pattern of diversification-with divergent branches spreading …

We review DNA-based studies of elephants and recently extinct proboscideans. The
evidence indicates that little or no nuclear gene flow occurs between African savanna …

Elephants have fascinated humans for millennia. Aristotle wrote of them with awe; Hannibal
used them in warfare; and John Donne called the elephant “Nature's greatest masterpiece …

Large carnivores are generally sensitive to ecosystem changes because their specialized
diet and position at the top of the trophic pyramid is associated with small population sizes …

Socioecological models of the evolution of female-bonded societies predict a relation
between resource distribution and the nature of female affiliative and dominance …

Comparing complete animal mitochondrial genome sequences is becoming increasingly
common for phylogenetic reconstruction and as a model for genome evolution. Not only are …

African forest and savanna elephants are distinct species separated by a hybrid zone,,,.
Because hybridization can affect the systematic and conservation status of populations, we …

Baboons (genus Papio) are an interesting phylogeographical primate model for the
evolution of savanna species during the Pleistocene. Earlier studies, based on partial …

Phylogenetic relationships between the extinct woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius),
and the Asian (Elephas maximus) and African savanna (Loxodonta africana) elephants …