December 20, 2005

Closing the time gap between then human-chimpanzee divergence

Sudhir Kumar, from the Center for Evolutionary Functional Genomics in the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State, has led a paper published in yesterday’s Proceedings of the National Academy on Sciences redefining the time human lineage diverged from chimpanzee lineage. Previously, there was a wide time range between the divergence… roughly 3 million to 13 million [...]