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Human generation times across the past 250,000 years

2021-09-07

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The generation times of our recent ancestors can tell us about both the biology and social organization of prehistoric humans, placing human evolution on an absolute timescale. We present a method for predicting historic male and female generation times based on changes in the mutation spectrum. Our analyses of whole-genome data reveal an average generation time of 26.9 years across the past 250,000 years, with fa...

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Literature Corpus work: e0a5f042-a74e-526c-a3ce-b6e5fdc5fc27
DOI: 10.1101/2021.09.07.459333

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