Abstract The Bering Land Bridge (BLB) last connected Eurasia and North America during
the Late Pleistocene. Although the BLB would have enabled transfers of terrestrial biota in …

Massive human‐induced declines of large‐sized animals and trees (megabiota) from the
Late Pleistocene to the Anthropocene have resulted in downsized ecosystems across the …

Simple Summary The family Equidae enjoys an iconic evolutionary record, especially the
genus Equus which is actively investigated by both paleontologists and molecular biologists …

The giant deer, widespread in northern Eurasia during the Late Pleistocene, have been
classified as western Megaloceros and eastern Sinomegaceros through morphological …

从古DNA 视角探讨古代生物的遗传组成已有40 多年历史. 自2005 年开始, 随着高通量测序技术
平台的开发应用及对小片段DNA 分子提取能力的加强, 古DNA 研究跨入全新的深时古基因组 …

The question about the time and the place of horse domestication, a process which had a
profound impact on the progress of mankind, is disputable. According to the most widely …

Steppe bison are a typical representative of the Mid-Late Pleistocene steppes of the
northern hemisphere. Despite the abundance of fossil remains, many questions related to …

Both molecular data and archaeological evidence strongly support an African origin for the
domestic donkey. Recent genetic studies further suggest that there were two distinct …

This paper presents historical and evolutionary insights into the “tarpan” group of small
horses by examining molar tooth enamel ultrastructure. Mathematical methodologies were …

Studies of horse evolution arose during the middle of the 19th century, and several
hypotheses have been proposed for their taxonomy, paleobiogeography, paleoecology and …