African elephant genomes reveal ancient mixing — and modern pressures
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A continent-wide genomic study of both savanna and forest elephants in Africa has found that African elephants once roamed widely, both species exchanging genes throughout their range. However, as humans decimated elephant populations for their ivory and fragmented their habitats with farms and urban development, the effects of these disturbances appeared in the genomic patterns of both African elephant species. Forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) and savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana) w
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