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Dating chimpanzees

Genetic research has tracked lineages of male chimpanzees thousands of years into the past, opening the door to the study of long-term behavioural evolution in our close primate relatives.

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Figure 1: Stable communities.

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Haslam, M. Dating chimpanzees. Nature 508, 322–323 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/508322a

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