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Chinese civilisation and the historical spread of the giant panda
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Sheng Guilian et al. 2018: "Ancient DNA from Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) of South-Western China Reveals Genetic Diversity Loss during the Holocene"
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"The giant panda probably disappeared from Yunnan Province approximately 5000 years ago as the dates of our samples represent the latest record of its appearance in this area. (...)

(...) Historical distribution data show that as recent as the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, giant pandas were still widely distributed in south-western China, including Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu Provinces [6,72]."

I.e., about 5000 years ago it seems to have gone extinct where there was no direct influence of Han civilisation back then. And even part of the territorial losses within central China were recent to the extent that Qing period modernisms can be said to have caused the giant panda vanishing there.



More news on giant panda palaeontology at http://english.cas.cn/newsroom/news/201806/t20180618_194244.shtml .
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