Article Information
vol. 306 no. 5701 1561-1565
- Received for publication June 4, 2004
- Accepted for publication October 4, 2004
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Author Information
- Beth Shapiro1,2,
- Alexei J. Drummond2,
- Andrew Rambaut2,
- Michael C. Wilson3,
- Paul E. Matheus4,
- Andrei V. Sher5,
- Oliver G. Pybus2,
- M. Thomas P. Gilbert1,2,
- Ian Barnes6,
- Jonas Binladen7,
- Eske Willerslev1,7,
- Anders J. Hansen7,
- Gennady F. Baryshnikov8,
- James A. Burns9,
- Sergei Davydov10,
- Jonathan C. Driver11,
- Duane G. Froese12,
- C. Richard Harington13,
- Grant Keddie14,
- Pavel Kosintsev15,
- Michael L. Kunz16,
- Larry D. Martin17,
- Robert O. Stephenson18,
- John Storer19,
- Richard Tedford20,
- Sergei Zimov10,
- Alan Cooper1,2,*
- 1 Henry Wellcome Ancient Biomolecules Centre, Oxford University, South Parks Road, Oxford OX13PS, UK.
- 2 Department of Zoology, Oxford University, South Parks Road, Oxford OX13PS, UK.
- 3 Department of Geology and Department of Anthropology, Douglas College, Post Office Box 2503, New Westminster, British Columbia V3L 5B2, Canada.
- 4 Alaska Quaternary Center and Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 900 Yukon Drive, Fairbanks, AK 99775–5940, USA.
- 5 Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, 33 Leninsky Prospect, 119071 Moscow, Russia.
- 6 The Centre for Genetic Anthropology, Department of Biology, Darwin Building, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
- 7 Department of Evolutionary Biology, Zoological Institute, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15–2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
- 8 Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia.
- 9 Quaternary Paleontology, Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T5N 0M6, Canada.
- 10 North-East Scientific Station of Russian Academy of Science, Post Office Box 18, Cherskii, Republic Sakha-Yakutia, Russia.
- 11 Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada.
- 12 Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E3, Canada.
- 13 Canadian Museum of Nature (Paleobiology), Ottawa, Ontario K1P 6P4, Canada.
- 14 Department of Archaeology, Royal British Columbia Museum, 675 Belleville Street, Victoria, British Columbia V8V 1X4, Canada.
- 15 Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 202 8 Martas Street, Ekaterinburg 620144, Russia.
- 16 Bureau of Land Management, 1150 University Avenue, Fairbanks, AK 99708 USA.
- 17 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA.
- 18 Alaska Department of Fish and Game, 1300 College Road, Fairbanks, AK 99701, USA.
- 19 Yukon Paleontologist, Heritage Resources, Yukon Department of Tourism and Culture, Box 2703, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory YTY1A 2C6, Canada.
- 20 Department of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024, USA.
- ↵* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: alan.cooper{at}zoo.ox.ac.uk