We provide a review and synthesis of key findings in phylogeographic research on terrestrial
animals in the Aegean archipelago (Greece) and surrounding regions (Greek mainland …

The paucity of ancient DNA (aDNA) studies in insects can be traced to the dismissal of the
1990s reports of DNA isolation from amber-entombed insects. In retrospect, amber was an …

This paper summarizes the existing knowledge on the Tilos endemic dwarf elephants and
proposes the new specific name Elephas tiliensis n. sp. The new name is geographical and …

Peruvian citizens have led our team to their discoveries of Pleistocene cave faunas in the
central Andes of Perú. These caves (Jatun Uchco, Departamento de Huánuco; Cueva …

During the Pleistocene pygmy elephantids, some only a quarter of their ancestors' size, were
present on Mediterranean islands until about 10 000 years ago (ya). Using a new …

356 CHARLES H. LINEWEAVER speak and have to forage in the wild. Meanwhile, three
species of apes (chimps, gorillas and orangutans) learn to speak English, ride horses, farm …

As the largest and among the most behaviourally complex extant terrestrial mammals,
proboscideans (elephants and their extinct relatives) are iconic representatives of the …

Results are based on ten hyoid characters of seven proboscidean taxa; four belong to the
subfamily Elephantinae. Using PAUP we generated six equally parsimonious trees. The …

The degree of preservation and the extractability of organic molecules in both
archaeological and paleontological skeletal material has been the objective of many studies …

Dwarf elephants are quite well known from the western Mediterranean islands, but they are
still poorly documented in most eastern Mediterranean islands. This paper reports on the …