Generation times in wild chimpanzees and gorillas suggest earlier divergence times in great ape and human evolution

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 39, 2012, Pages 15716-15721

  Langergraber, Kevin E ^a,b   Prüfer, Kay ^b   Rowney, Carolyn ^b   Boesch, Christophe ^b   Crockford, Catherine ^c   Fawcett, Katie ^d   Inoue, Eiji ^e   Inoue Muruyama, Miho ^e   Mitani, John C ^f   Muller, Martin N ^g   Robbins, Martha M ^b   Schubert, Grit ^b,j   Stoinski, Tara S ^d   Viola, Bence ^b   Watts, David ^h   Wittig, Roman M ^b,c   Wrangham, Richard W ⁱ   Zuberbuḧler, Klaus ^c   Pääbo, Svante ^b   Vigilant, Linda ^b  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International   (United States)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^h YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Hominin; Molecular dating; Primate; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CHIMPANZEE; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FOSSIL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GORILLA; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; MALE; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GORILLA GORILLA; HUMANS; PAN TROGLODYTES;

GORILLA GORILLA BERINGEI; HOMINIDAE; PAN; PRIMATES;

EID: 84866856766     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1211740109     Document Type: Article

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