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Colloquium paper: phylogenomic evidence of adaptive evolution in the ancestry of humans.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 11 May 2010
Goodman Morris, Sterner Kirstin N
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In Charles Darwin's tree model for life's evolution, natural selection adaptively modifies newly arisen species as they branch apart from their common ancestor. In accord with this Darwinian concept, the phylogenomic approach to elucidating adaptive evolution in genes and genomes in the ancestry of modern humans requires a well supported and well sampled phylogeny that accurately places humans and other primates...
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