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Evolution and the origins of man: clues from complete sequences of hominoid mitochondrial DNA.
The Southeast Asian journal of tropical medicine and public health - 1 Jan 1995
Horai S
Abstract excerpt
Dating the origins of Homo sapiens sapiens is a central problem in human population genetics and anthropology. Do we descend from a single recent ancestral population in Africa, or from multiple ancestral populations in various regions of the world which one million years ago simultaneously began developing into H.s.sapiens? The high substitution rate of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) makes this molecule suitable for...
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