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Chimpanzee
The chimpanzee and human genomes are more than 98% identical, but there are a few short DNA sequences that have changed significantly in humans since the two species diverged about 5 million years ago (see Pollard et al.). These Human Accelerated Regions (HARs) provide clues into our evolution.
Image Credit: Image by Owen Booth
Citation: (2006) PLoS Genetics Issue Image | Vol. 2(10) October 2006. PLoS Genet 2(10): ev02.i10. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pgen.v02.i10
Published: October 27, 2006
Copyright: © 2006 . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
The chimpanzee and human genomes are more than 98% identical, but there are a few short DNA sequences that have changed significantly in humans since the two species diverged about 5 million years ago (see Pollard et al.). These Human Accelerated Regions (HARs) provide clues into our evolution.
Image Credit: Image by Owen Booth