Hominin evolution was caused by introgression from Gorilla

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Preprint , Other literature type 01 Jan 2018Embargo end date: 01 Oct 2018Publisher:PeerJJournal:Natural Science, volume 10, pages 329-337 (issn: 2150-4091, eissn: 2150-4105,

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Authors: Nygren, Johan;

doi: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.27163v1 , 10.4236/ns.2018.109033 , 10.5281/zenodo.1405238 , 10.48550/arxiv.1810.04796 , 10.5281/zenodo.1405237

arXiv: 1810.04796

Hominin evolution was caused by introgression from Gorilla

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ABSTRACT: The discovery of Paranthropus deyiremeda in 3.3–3.5 million year old fossil sites in Afar, together with 30% of the gorilla genome showing lineage sorting between humans and chimpanzees, and a NUMT (“nuclear mitochondrial DNA segment”) on chromosome 5 that is shared by both gorillas, humans and chimpanzees, and shown to have diverged at the time of the Pan-Homo split rather than the Gorilla/Pan-Homo split, provides conclusive evidence that introgression from the gorilla lineage caused the Pan-Homo split, and the speciation of both the Australopithecus lineage and the Paranthropus lineage.

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FOS: Biological sciences, Other Quantitative Biology (q-bio.OT), Quantitative Biology - Other Quantitative Biology, ps5; australopithecus; paranthropus; introgression; gorilla; pan; homo; evolution

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