About the Number of Base Substitutions Between Humans and Common Chimpanzees
Populations and Evolution
2010-02-24 v1
Abstract
Humans and chimpanzees are believed to have shared a common ancestor about 6 million years ago. Here using a new distance measure called the Jump distance, we calculate the number of base substitutions that might have occurred in the mitochondrial DNA during these 6 million years.
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@article{arxiv.1002.4386,
title = {About the Number of Base Substitutions Between Humans and Common Chimpanzees},
author = {Viswanath C Narayanan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.4386},
year = {2010}
}
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