Ancient and modern genomes unravel the evolutionary history of the rhinoceros family
Understanding the relationships among rhinoceros species and when they diverged has been a question addressed by evolutionary biologists since the dawn of the field. Darwin himself discussed the topic in 1842 as one of a handful of examples in his short treatise on evolution that preceded ‘On the Origin of Species’ in 1859. Our data include the five extant rhinoceros species, represented by four de novo genome assemblies of black (Diceros bicornis), white (Ceratotherium simu