Evolutionary BiologyBMC Genomic DataPeer-reviewed
Dating ancient humans splits by estimating Poisson rates from mitochondrial DNA parity samples
Keren Levinstein Hallak, Saharon Rosset
The paper estimates divergence times between species using Poisson rate models on mitochondrial DNA parity data, showing improved accuracy over BEAST2 and suggesting later TMRCA for Neanderthals, Denisovans, and chimpanzees.
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