How old are chimpanzee communities? Time to the most recent common ancestor of the Y-chromosome in highly patrilocal societies

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-7

  Langergraber, Kevin E ^a,b   Rowney, Carolyn ^b   Schubert, Grit ^b,c   Crockford, Cathy ^b   Hobaiter, Catherine ^d   Wittig, Roman ^b   Wrangham, Richard W ^e   Zuberbühler, Klaus ^d,f   Vigilant, Linda ^b  

^a USA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ancestry; Community formation; Culture; Dating; Haplotype; Mutation rate; Pan troglodytes; Paternity; Philopatry

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; CHROMOSOME; CULTURE; MUTATION; PATERNITY; PHILOPATRY; PRIMATE;

ANIMALIA; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; COTE D'IVOIRE; GENE FLOW; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PAN TROGLODYTES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TIME; UGANDA; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; COTE D'IVOIRE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FLOW; GENE FREQUENCY; HAPLOTYPES; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PAN TROGLODYTES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TIME; UGANDA; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84898055372     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.12.005     Document Type: Article

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