Dating of the human-ape splitting by a molecular clock of mitochondrial DNA
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Summary
A new statistical method for estimating divergence dates of species from DNA sequence data by a molecular clock approach is developed, and this dating may pose a problem for the widely believed hypothesis that the bipedal creatureAustralopithecus afarensis, which lived some 3.7 million years ago, was ancestral to man and evolved after the human-ape splitting.
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- 2005-01-01
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Keywords
Molecular clock, Biology, Mitochondrial DNA, Evolutionary biology, Sequence (biology)
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