Polar bear genome reveals rapid adaptation to fatty diet

Thursday, May 8, 2014 - 11:01 in Biology & Nature

A comparison of the genomes of polar bears and brown bears reveals that the polar bear is a much younger species than previously believed, having diverged from brown bears less than 500,000 years ago.

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