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Extraordinary incidence of cervical ribs indicates vulnerable condition in Late Pleistocene mammoths
https://peerj.com/articles/318/
"The number of cervical vertebrae in mammals is highly conserved at seven."

Inbreeding in woolly mammoths: Neck rib provides clues about decline and eventual extinction
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/...
"Researchers recently noticed that the remains of woolly mammoths from the North Sea often possess a 'cervical' (neck) rib -- in fact, 10 times more frequently than in modern elephants (33.3 percent versus 3.3 percent)."

Bonobo: Sexuality and Behavior
http://academic.reed.edu/biology/cour...
"Ernest Schwarz, a German anatomist in a Belgian colonial museum first documented Pan paniscus in 1929. The species name reflects that the P. paniscus skull was first thought to belong to a juvenile chimpanzee."

Extremely high levels of inbreeding in natural population of the free-living wasp Ancistrocerus antilope
http://www.nature.com/hdy/journal/v76...
"An isozyme study was conducted on a natural population of the solitary trap-nesting eumenid wasp, Ancistrocerus antilope (Panzer)."

Incest Not So Taboo in Nature
http://www.livescience.com/2226-inces...
"This recent story went wide: British fraternal twins who were adopted separately at birth later married without realizing they were brother and sister. Why does this make us so instantly and overtly squeamish?"

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