So having this information allows us to answer one of the interesting relationship questions between mammoths and their living relatives, the African and the Asian elephant, all of which shared an ancestor seven million years ago, but the genome of the mammoth shows it to share a most recent common ancestor with Asian elephants about six million years ago, so slightly closer to the Asian elephant.
所以拥有这些信息，我们就能够 解答那有趣的种族问题 包括猛犸之间，和它们如今在世的近亲 那些非洲象亚洲象 所有那些七百万年前都是一家人的象 但是猛犸的基因显示 它和亚洲象有着最近的共同祖先 约在六百万年前 所以多少和亚洲象比较亲近