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Modern African ape populations as genetic and demographic models of the last common ancestor of humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Jensen-Seaman M I, Deinard A S, Kidd K K
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In order to fully understand human evolutionary history through the use of molecular data, it is essential to include our closest relatives as a comparison. We provide here estimates of nucleotide diversity and effective population size of modern African ape species using data from several independent noncoding nuclear loci, and use these estimates to make predictions about the nature of the ancestral population...
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