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Evolution: natural selection in the evolution of humans and chimps.

Current biology : CB - 22 Nov 2005

Ellegren Hans

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We now have more or less full sequences of both human and chimp genomes, allowing comparison that sheds light on their evolution. A few hundred genes show significant evidence for adaptive evolution in the two lineages, but the actual number might be much higher. Natural selection has eliminated about 75% of amino acid changes in coding sequence since the split of the human and chimpanzee genomes.

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PMID: 16303548
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2005.10.060

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