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Elsevier, Quaternary International, (255), p. 53-58

DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2011.07.038

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Did mammoth end up a lilliput? Temporal body size trends in Late Pleistocene Mammoths, Mammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach, 1799) inferred from dental data

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Abstract

A trend toward a smaller body size and increased sexual dimorphism for the latest populations of woolly mammoth is mentioned in the literature. This paper reviews the evidence using dental data, and concludes that dental data do not show this trend.