Thursday, April 21

21/04/2011

The common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) is our closest relative. Its genome sequence is about 98.8% identical to our own, and we shared a common ancestor some six million years ago.’ The assumption that humans diverged from chimps roughly this long ago also forms the basis of the mitochondrial clock, which ‘continues to be widely used to “time” human evolution and population movements, both ancient and modern.’

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