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The mutation rate in human evolution and demographic inference

2016-06-29

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The germline mutation rate has long been a major source of uncertainty in human evolutionary and demographic analyses based on genetic data, but estimates have improved substantially in recent years. I discuss our current knowledge of the mutation rate in humans and the underlying biological factors affecting it, which include generation time, parental age and other developmental and reproductive timescales. There...

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Literature Corpus work: df43d538-a94e-5fd8-a2d7-3bdf1368b799
DOI: 10.1101/061226

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