Hominin Evolution Was Caused by Introgression from Gorilla  

作　　者：Johan Nygren 

机构地区：[1]Independent Researcher, Stockholm, Sweden

出　　处：《Natural Science》2018年第9期329-337,共9页自然科学期刊（英文）

摘　　要：The discovery of Paranthropus deyiremeda in 3.3 - 3.5 million-year-old fossil sites in Afar, together with 30% of the gorilla genome showing lineage sorting between humans and chimpanzees, and a NUMT (“nuclear mitochondrial DNA segment”) on chromosome 5 that is shared by both gorillas, humans and chimpanzees, and shown to have diverged at the time of the Pan-Homo split rather than the Gorilla/Pan-Homo split, provides conclusive evidence that introgression from the gorilla lineage caused the Pan-Homo split, and the speciation of both the Australopithecus lineage and the Paranthropus lineage.The discovery of Paranthropus deyiremeda in 3.3 - 3.5 million-year-old fossil sites in Afar, together with 30% of the gorilla genome showing lineage sorting between humans and chimpanzees, and a NUMT (“nuclear mitochondrial DNA segment”) on chromosome 5 that is shared by both gorillas, humans and chimpanzees, and shown to have diverged at the time of the Pan-Homo split rather than the Gorilla/Pan-Homo split, provides conclusive evidence that introgression from the gorilla lineage caused the Pan-Homo split, and the speciation of both the Australopithecus lineage and the Paranthropus lineage.

关 键 词：ANTHROPOLOGY Australopithecus CHIMPANZEE DARWIN GORILLA Homo INTROGRESSION NUMT Pan Paranthropus Pthirus 

分 类 号：R73[医药卫生—肿瘤]