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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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