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Keywords: approximate Bayesian computation; Approximation; Archipelagoes; Arctic refugium; Arctic region; Bayesian analysis; Biological evolution; Climate change; Colonization; Deoxyribonucleic acid; Divergence; DNA; evolution; Evolutionary conservation; fauna; Flora; genetic markers; ice; Ice sheets; Islands; Mammals; microrefugia; microsatellite repeats; Microsatellites; Mitochondrial DNA; phylogeography; Physical characteristics; Pleistocene; Rangifer tarandus; Rangifer tarandus pearyi; refuge habitats; Refugia; Refugia and phylogeography; secondary contact; subspecies; Wildlife conservation; Wisconsin; Beringia; Arctic region; Wisconsin