A Revised Timescale for Human Evolution Based on Ancient Mitochondrial Genomes

2013/03/21 by Qiaomei Fu, Alissa Mittnik, Philip L.F. Johnson +24 · 24 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Biology #Computational biology #Evolutionary biology #Forensic and Genetic Research #Gene #Genetics #Genome #Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies #Mitochondrial DNA #Mitochondrial Function and Pathology

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.cub.2013.02.044

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