"One of the Last Mammoths on Earth Was So Mutated," Topic

… It Lost the Ability to Smell Flowers.

"The vast majority of woolly mammoths went extinct at the end of the last ice age, but small, isolated populations managed to hold out for a little while longer. New research uncovers the extent to which at least one of these final mammoths suffered due to its many mutations.

Diabetes, developmental disorders, male infertility, and even the inability to smell flowers are at least some of the health problems experienced by one of the last mammoths to grace this good Earth, according to research published today in Genome Biology and Evolution. The new paper, co-authored by evolutionary biologist Vincent Lynch from the University at Buffalo, highlights the dramatic extent to which inbreeding likely affected the final populations of woolly mammoths, who were trapped on small islands in the North Pacific and Arctic oceans…"
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Amicalement
Armand

Interesting article. I don't game pre-historic stuff but someone could probably use these findings to make some interesting, and plausible, scenarios about adventurers and lost islands.

Glad you enjoyed it my friend!. (smile)

Amicalement
Armand

Like you say, PAR, an interesting article.
I think the Israeli government broke up several villages in Israel years ago because the people were very inbred. It might be possible to port this information over to human populations for lost islands, valleys, plateaus, too.

Grelber

Happy you enjoyed too my friend!. (smile)

Amicalement
Armand