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The study of evolution is an evolution in itself.

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I'm not sure the Russians would be happy that their iconic wooly mammoth has North American origins.

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It turns out that there are swaths of habitat in the north of Siberia and Yukon that actually could house a mammoth. Remember, this was a highly plastic animal that lived over tremendous climate variation.

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Scientists have always thought that because mammoths roamed such a huge territory - from Western Europe to Central North America - that North American woolly mammoths were a sideshow of no particular significance to the evolution of the species.

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When I was a young boy, I used to gaze through the microscope of my father at the insects in amber that he kept in the house. And they were remarkably well preserved, morphologically just phenomenal.

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Biography

Nationality: Dutch

Type: Scientist

Born: May 31st, 1969

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