Editing Marmot (section)

===Relationship to the Black Death===
Some historians and paleogeneticists have postulated that the ''[[Yersinia pestis]]'' variant that caused the [[Black Death]] pandemic that struck Eurasia in the [[14th century]] originated from a variant for which marmots in China were the [[natural reservoir]] species.<ref>Smithsonian Magazine. [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/did-black-death-rampage-across-world-more-century-previously-thought-180977331/ "Did the Black Death Rampage Across the World a Century Earlier Than Previously Thought?"], March 25, 2021. Accessed March 27, 2010.</ref><ref>The American Historical Review. [https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/125/5/1601/6040962 "The Four Black Deaths"], December 17, 2020. Accessed March 27, 2010.</ref>
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