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Molecular Evolution in the Descent of Man

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Three computer programs applied to data from phylogenetic trees and protein polymorphism can be used to find the rate of molecular evolution of different species. It can be shown that this is slower for higher primates than for other mammals.

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  1. Department of Anatomy, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, 48207

    MORRIS GOODMAN & JOHN BARNABAS

  2. Department of Biochemistry, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Nagasaki

    GENJI MATSUDA

  3. Institute of Statistics, Biomathematics Program, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27607

    G. WILLIAM MOORE

  4. Plymouth State Home and Training School, Northville, Michigan, 48167

    MORRIS GOODMAN & JOHN BARNABAS

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GOODMAN, M., BARNABAS, J., MATSUDA, G. et al. Molecular Evolution in the Descent of Man. Nature 233, 604–613 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/233604a0

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