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Considerations on the Paper “Morphological Convergence in Hippidion and Equus (Amerhippus) South American Equids Elucidated by Ancient DNAAnalysis’’, by Ludovic Orlando, Véra Eisenmann, Frédéric Reynier, PaulSondaar, Catherine Hänni

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Acknowledgments

We are grateful to Dr. V. Eisenmann, Muséum Nationale d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, who provided us photographs of the tooth from Rio Verde. DGCYT project BTE2001-1684 supported this work, James Watkins corrected the English text.

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  1. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, Madrid, 28006 , Spain

    Maria Teresa Alberdi

  2. INCUAPA, Departamento de Arqueología, Universidad Nacional del Centro, Del Valle 5737, Olavarría, B7400JWI, Argentina

    José Luis Prado

  3. CEQUA, Instituto de la Patagonia, Universidad de Magallanes, Casilla 113-D, Punta Arenas, Chile

    Alfredo Prieto

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Alberdi, M.T., Prado, J.L. & Prieto, A. Considerations on the Paper “Morphological Convergence in Hippidion and Equus (Amerhippus) South American Equids Elucidated by Ancient DNAAnalysis’’, by Ludovic Orlando, Véra Eisenmann, Frédéric Reynier, PaulSondaar, Catherine Hänni. J Mol Evol 61, 145–147 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00239-004-0216-3

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