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SUBMITTER: de Manuel M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5546212 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20161027 6311
Our closest living relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, have a complex demographic history. We analyzed the high-coverage whole genomes of 75 wild-born chimpanzees and bonobos from 10 countries in Africa. We found that chimpanzee population substructure makes genetic information a good predictor of geographic origin at country and regional scales. Multiple lines of evidence suggest that gene flow occurred from bonobos into the ancestors of central and eastern chimpanzees between 200,000 and 550,0 ...[more]