I can’t help it, I must link to this PLOS paper on Tiger phylogenetics. Tigers are cool! Two things of note, people might be surprised that Tigers probably showed up in India around 12,000 years ago, that is, Homo sapiens predates the dark lord of the jungle. Additionally, it seems that the coalescence of the various Tiger mtDNA lineages corresponds with the Toba explosion in Sumatra, which has also been implicated in a population bottleneck among humans (in The Real Eve the Toba event is a watershed in human genetic history).
Posted by razib at 10:42 PM