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A New Study on Elephants A recent study of ancient and modern elephants has come up with the unexpected conclusion that the A
A New Study on Elephants A recent study of ancient and modern elephants has come up with the unexpected conclusion that the A
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2019-08-15
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A New Study on Elephants
A recent study of ancient and modern elephants has come up with the unexpected conclusion that the African elephant is divided into two distinct (不同的) species.
The discovery was made by researchers at York and Harvard universities when they were examining the genetic (基因的) relationship between the ancient woolly mammoth and mastodon to modern elephants—the Asian elephant, African forest elephant and African savanna (热带草原) elephant.
Once they obtained DNA sequences from two fossils (化石) , mammoths and mastodons. The team compared them with DNA from modern elephants. They found to their amazement that modern forest and savanna elephants are as distinct from each other as Asian elephants and mammoths.
The scientists used detailed genetic analysis to prove that the African savanna elephants and the African forest elephants have been distinct species for several million years. The divergence (分离)of the two species took place around the time of the divergence of Asian elephants and woolly mammoths. This result amazed all the scientists.
There has long been debate in the scientific community that the two might be separate species but this is the most convincing scientific evidence so far that they are indeed different species.
Previously, many naturalists believed that African savanna elephants and African forest elephants were two populations of the same species despite the elephants’ significant size differences. The savanna elephant has an average shoulder height of 3. 5 metres while the forest elephant has an average shoulder height of 2. 5metres. The savanna elephant weighs between six and seven tons, roughly double the weight of the forest elephant. But the fact that they look so different does not necessarily mean they are different species. However, the proof lay in the analysis of the DNA.
Alfred Roca, assistant professor in the department of Animal Sciences at the University of Minois, said, " We now have to treat the forest and savanna elephants as two different units for conservation purpose. Since 1950 all African elephants have been conserved as one species. Now that we know the forest and savanna elephants are two very distinct animals, the forest elephant should become a bigger priority (优先)for conservation purpose. "
There are convincing evidences to prove that the African savanna elephants and the African forest elephants are indeed different species.
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A、TRUE
B、FALSE
C、Not Given
答案
A
解析
题干要求判断是否有证据证明非洲热带草原大象和非洲森林大象确实是不同的物种。文中第五段明确提到了“this is the most convincing scientific evidence so far that they are indeed different species”,这里的“this”指的就是这次研究以及不同种群大象DNA的对比,所以题干表述是正确的。
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