Evolution: natural selection in the evolution of humans and chimps.
We now have more or less full sequences of both human and chimp genomes, allowing comparison that sheds light on their evolution. A few hundred genes show significant evidence for adaptive evolution in the two lineages, but the actual number might be much higher. Natural selection has eliminated about 75% of amino acid changes in coding sequence since the split of the human and chimpanzee genomes.
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Department of Evolutionary Biology, Uppsala University, Sweden.
D000220:Adaptation, Biological / Q000235:genetics*; D000818:Animals; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D016678:Genome; D023281:Genomics / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D008957:Models, Genetic; D009154:Mutation / Q000235:genetics; D002679:Pan troglodytes / Q000235:genetics*; D012641:Selection, Genetic; D012737:Sex Factors; D013045:Species Specificity