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Nature 427, 208-209 (15 January 2004) | doi:10.1038/427208a
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Evolutionary biology: Our relative genetics
David Penny1
Abstract
Data on the chimpanzee genome help in detecting differential selection on individual genes, and in judging whether normal microevolutionary processes are sufficient to account for human origins.
Increasingly accurate versions of the human genome sequence are being produced. But to find out what biologically makes us human we also need the sequenced genome of our nearest relative, the chimpanzee, to see whether there is anything in our genetic constitution that could not have arisen by well-understood genetic processes.
- David Penny is at the Allan Wilson Center for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
Email: d.penny@massey.ac.nz
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