title: Phylogeny and molecular evolution in primates.
abstract: Statistical methods for estimating the branching order and the branching dates from DNA sequence data, taking into account of the rate variation among lineages, are reviewed. An application of the methods to data from primates suggests that chimpanzee is the closest relative of man, and further suggests that these two species diverged about 4-5 million years ago.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hasegawa
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D004247:DNA; D014644:Genetic Variation; D005914:Globins / Q000235:genetics; D015186:Hominidae / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D008957:Models, Genetic; D010802:Phylogeny; D011323:Primates / Q000235:genetics*; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D005914:Globins; D004247:DNA