Ice Age Humans Preferred Hunting Female Woolly Mammoths
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A study published in Current Biology analyzed the DNA of over 500 woolly mammoth bones, revealing that Ice Age humans selectively hunted female mammoths. The findings show a stark contrast in sex ratio between natural deaths and human-associated sites, with females dominating the latter. The reasons behind this preference remain unclear, but it could be due to herd behavior or predictable movement patterns. The study also identified the first case of X0/XX mosaicism in an extinct species.
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