New statistical model moves human evolution back 3 million years

Friday, November 5, 2010 - 11:01 in Biology & Nature

Evolutionary divergence of humans from chimpanzees likely occurred some 8 million years ago rather than the 5 million year estimate widely accepted by scientists, a new statistical model suggests....

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