About the Number of Base Substitutions Between Humans and Common Chimpanzees

2010/02/23 by Viswanath C. Narayanan, Viswanath C Narayanan, Narayanan, Viswanath C
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Neuroscience · Nursing · Psychology · #Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques #FOS: Biological sciences #Memory and Neural Mechanisms #Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE) #Primate Behavior and Ecology #q-bio.PE

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1002.4386

7 pages

arxiv created 2010/02/23 · openalex publication_date 2010/02/23 · arxiv updated 2010/02/26 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Humans and chimpanzees are believed to have shared a common ancestor about 6 million years ago. Here using a new distance measure called the Jump distance, we calculate the number of base substitutions that might have occurred in the mitochondrial DNA during these 6 million years.

Citations

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