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The impact of genetic adaptation on chimpanzee subspecies differentiation.
PLoS genetics - 1 Nov 2019
Schmidt Joshua M, de Manuel Marc, Marques-Bonet Tomas, Castellano Sergi, Andrés Aida M
Abstract excerpt
Chimpanzees, humans' closest relatives, are in danger of extinction. Aside from direct human impacts such as hunting and habitat destruction, a key threat is transmissible disease. As humans continue to encroach upon their habitats, which shrink in size and grow in density, the risk of inter-population and cross-species viral transmission increases, a point dramatically made in the reverse with the global...
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