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09-06-2015, 05:57 PM( This post was last modified: 09-07-2015, 02:08 AM by GrizzlyClaws )
Interesting finding, the other hypothesis is that the Cave lion was descended from an ancient group of the maneless African lion.
At the time when the Asian lion used to split away from the African lion at 100kya, the lion had already developed a maned form, the maneless Cave lion could split much earlier than that.
However, this article seems to be quite old which is 2007, and does this study still stand by now?