Hominin evolution was caused by introgression from Gorilla
Other Quantitative Biology
2018-10-12 v1
Abstract
The discovery of Paranthropus deyiremeda in 3.3-3.5 million year old fossil sites in Afar, together with 30% of the gorilla genome showing lineage sorting between humans and chimpanzees, and a NUMT ("nuclear mitochondrial DNA segment") on chromosome 5 that is shared by both gorillas, humans and chimpanzees, and shown to have diverged at the time of the Pan-Homo split rather than the Gorilla/Pan-Homo split, provides conclusive evidence that introgression from the gorilla lineage caused the Pan-Homo split, and the speciation of both the Australopithecus lineage and the Paranthropus lineage.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1810.04796,
title = {Hominin evolution was caused by introgression from Gorilla},
author = {Johan Nygren},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.04796},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1808.06307