Life history effects on the molecular clock of autosomes, sex chromosomes
Saturday, January 30, 2016 - 15:52
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Accounting for the effect of sex-specific life history events, such as the onset of puberty in male hominids, on mutation rates can help reconcile mutation-rate-based estimates of the split between chimpanzees and humans with the fossil record, suggesting that the split may have been as recent as 6.6 million years ago, new research indicates.