Out of Eurasia, a great primate evolutionary bottleneck?
Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 11:31
in Biology & Nature
On the road to our modern human lineage, scientists speculate there were many twist and turns, evolutionary dead ends, and population bottlenecks along the way. But how large were population sizes of common ancestors of the great apes and humans, and does the genetic analysis support the prevailing views of a great bottleneck in primate evolution?