Jonathan Marcot, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IMAGE)

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Jonathan Marcot, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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In a study of fossils spanning 63 million years, University of Illinois animal biology professor Jonathan Marcot and his colleagues found that current patterns of mammal biodiversity in North America are a relatively recent phenomenon.

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