Ancient DNA from the koala lemur puts Madagascar on the paleogenomic map [Anthropology]

In the Southern Hemisphere, there are two exceptionally large noncontinental landmasses with very long histories of geographical isolation—New Zealand and Madagascar. Both landmasses have unique and distinctive fauna and flora that nonetheless present a number of intriguing parallels, including the long-term preservation of distant sister lineages to otherwise globally widespread...
Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - Category: Science Authors: Tags: Anthropology, Commentaries Commentary Source Type: research