They found that very few medium- and large-bodied mammals are "rift specialists," and the rift environment, in fact, represents on average 1.6% of the total geographic range of modern mammal species.

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WASHINGTON (August 20, 2024) – Much of the early human fossil record originates from just a few places in Africa, where favorable geological conditions have preserved a trove of fossils used by ...