About the Authors
- Philip Francis Thomsen
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Affiliation Centre for Ancient Genetics and Environments, Natural History Museum and Institute of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Scott Elias
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Affiliation Geography Department, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom
- M. Thomas P. Gilbert
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Affiliation Centre for Ancient Genetics and Environments, Natural History Museum and Institute of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- James Haile
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Affiliation Henry Wellcome Ancient Biomolecules Centre, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Kasper Munch
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Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Svetlana Kuzmina
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Affiliation Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Duane G. Froese
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Affiliation Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Andrei Sher
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† Deceased.
Affiliation Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Richard N. Holdaway
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Affiliations Palaecol Research Ltd, Christchurch, New Zealand, School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
- Eske Willerslev
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* E-mail: ewillerslev@snm.ku.dk
Affiliation Centre for Ancient Genetics and Environments, Natural History Museum and Institute of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: PFT SE MTPG JH SK DF RNH EW. Performed the experiments: PFT JH SK DF RNH. Analyzed the data: PFT JH KM SK DF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PFT SE MTPG JH KM SK DF AS RNH. Wrote the paper: PFT EW. Initiated study on sediment-preserved DNA in temperate environments (Willerslev et al. 2003) and directed the research in the Hukanui Pool site: RNH.