Hominin Evolution Was Caused by Introgression from Gorilla ()
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.
KEYWORDS
Anthropology,
Australopithecus,
Chimpanzee,
Darwin,
Gorilla,
Homo,
Introgression,
Numt,
Pan,
Paranthropus,
Pthirus
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Nygren, J. (2018) Hominin Evolution Was Caused by Introgression from Gorilla.
Natural Science,
10, 329-337. doi:
10.4236/ns.2018.109033.
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