Paleogenomic analysis reveals cave lions and modern lions were distinct lineages with Late Pleistocene gene flow
Paleogenomic analysis of cave lions spanning >100 kya shows that extinct cave lions formed a long-diverged evolutionary lineage from modern lions, with distinct demographic histories and…
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