The Japanese Journal of Genetics
Online ISSN : 1880-5787
Print ISSN : 0021-504X
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Phylogeny and molecular evolution in primates
Masami HASEGAWA
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1990 Volume 65 Issue 4 Pages 243-266

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Statistical methods for estimating the branching order and the branching dates from DNA sequence data, taking into account of the rate variation among lineages, are reviewed. An application of the methods to data from primates suggests that chimpanzee is the closest relative of man, and further suggests that these two species diverged about 4-5 million years ago.

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