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" The question of one versus two species of African elephants isn't about settling an arcane DNA argument; it's about life or death for these majestic, extraordinary creatures. "

Lydia Millet

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" More than two million years ago, mammoths and Asian elephants took different evolutionary paths - and around the same time, according to DNA research, so did their lumbering relatives in Africa. "

" African elephants have long been thought of as a single species, but a critical mass of genetic studies now proves there are two. "