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Human germline mutation and the erratic evolutionary clock

2016-06-09

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Our understanding of the chronology of human evolution relies on the “molecular clock” provided by the steady accumulation of substitutions on an evolutionary lineage. Recent analyses of human pedigrees have called this understanding into question, by revealing unexpectedly low germline mutation rates, which imply that substitutions accrue more slowly than previously believed. Translating mutation rates estimated...

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Literature Corpus work: 02be711a-e387-583e-a869-cbe4e54c2686
DOI: 10.1101/058024

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