Some of humanity's earliest ancestors lived in southern Africa and evidence from sites there
has inspired key debates on human origins and the emergence of complex cognition …

Over the last two millennia, and at an accelerating pace, the African elephant (Loxodonta
spp. Lin.) has been threatened by human activities across its range. 1–7 We investigate the …

The role that humans played in the extinction of Pleistocene proboscideans is highly
controversial. Ethnohistoric records of elephant hunting, in concert with theoretical …

Elephants are essential ecological engineers, creating and maintaining landscape structure
and ecosystem function. The recently distinguished and critically endangered forest …

Over recent years, mounting pressure has been placed on countries to assess their role in
the ivory trade, with a view to tackling the rapidly declining numbers of elephants, due to …

The morphological identification of raw biological material used to produce archeological
artifacts is sometimes difficult or even impossible. In recent years, newly developed …

The discovery of the sea route around the Cape by Vasco da Gama in 1498 opened the
maritime trade between Europe, East Africa and India. At this time, Mozambique Island …

Humans have utilized and exchanged ivory from different species of elephant living on the
African continent for millennia, with ivory from both forest and savannah species being …

Because Kemp's ridley sea turtles (Lepidochelys kempii) are critically endangered and
closely related to the vulnerable olive ridleys (L. olivacea), it is essential for forensic …

国境口岸截获象牙的地理溯源是识别非法象牙来源地, 确定走私热点地区, 描绘走私通道,
有针对性地打击象牙非法贸易的重要前提. 利用线粒体DNA 单倍型溯源的方法, 对我国的126 …