[PW] Mammoth survival

[John P. Dyson]

Quoting "Fuller, Thomas (US - Washington D.C.)" <tfuller at DELOITTE.com>:

> Now, most paleontological sources say that the American mammoth became
> extinct thousands of years ago.  My question is:  Is there respectable
> scientific evidence that the mammoth might have survived into the
> present era?  Or was Jefferson just being ribbed by mendacious Indians,
> and is Bakeless just a credulous non-scientist?  I can't seem to find
> anyone who actually believes this, but it's a good enough story that I
> wonder if anyone has seriously evaluated it.

Tom, I doubt that anyone has bothered to evaluate any single story, but
there are a lot of books that by implication evaluate all such stories.
Paul Schultz Martin's _Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions
and the Rewilding of America_ (University of California Press, 2005)
should clear the record.

John Dyson