2001
Modern African Ape Populations as Genetic and Demographic Models of the Last Common Ancestor of Humans, Chimpanzees, and Gorillas
Jensen-Seaman M, Deinard A, Kidd K. Modern African Ape Populations as Genetic and Demographic Models of the Last Common Ancestor of Humans, Chimpanzees, and Gorillas. Journal Of Heredity 2001, 92: 475-480. PMID: 11948214, DOI: 10.1093/jhered/92.6.475.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLast common ancestorEffective population sizeNucleotide diversityCommon ancestorStrong female philopatryStrong geographic structuringPopulation sizeHuman evolutionary historyNuclear lociGeographic structuringModern humansFemale philopatryEvolutionary historyAncestral populationsGorilla lineageMolecular dataNuclear DNAClose relativesDemographic modelsAfrican ape speciesApe populationsApe speciesNatal groupSpeciesDispersal system
1998
Genetic Structure of the Ancestral Population of Modern Humans
Ziętkiewicz E, Yotova V, Jarnik M, Korab-Laskowska M, Kidd K, Modiano D, Scozzari R, Stoneking M, Tishkoff S, Batzer M, Labuda D. Genetic Structure of the Ancestral Population of Modern Humans. Journal Of Molecular Evolution 1998, 47: 146-155. PMID: 9694663, DOI: 10.1007/pl00006371.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNucleotide diversityAncestral populationsNeutral DNA polymorphismsOverall nucleotide diversityPopulation-specific variantsOld polymorphismsGenetic structureAncestral stateHuman divergenceOrthologous sitesGenetic variabilityDNA polymorphismsNew allelesHuman variantsPolymorphic sitesNon-AfricansWorldwide sampleGreat apesEffective sizeModern humansHuman groupsDiversityPolymorphismDivergenceNew Guinea