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Placing confidence limits on the molecular age of the human-chimpanzee divergence.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 27 Dec 2005
Kumar Sudhir, Filipski Alan, Swarna Vinod, Walker Alan, Hedges S Blair
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Molecular clocks have been used to date the divergence of humans and chimpanzees for nearly four decades. Nonetheless, this date and its confidence interval remain to be firmly established. In an effort to generate a genomic view of the human-chimpanzee divergence, we have analyzed 167 nuclear protein-coding genes and built a reliable confidence interval around the calculated time by applying a multifactor...
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