Pleistocene extinctions: haunting the survivors.
For many years, the megafaunal extinctions at the end of the Pleistocene have been assumed to have affected only those species that became extinct. However, recent analyses show that the surviving species may also have experienced losses in terms of genetic and ecological diversity.
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany.
Michael
M
Hofreiter
D000818:Animals; D053476:Extinction, Biological; D006801:Humans; D010163:Paleontology