Longer time scale for human evolution

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John Hawks. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012.

. 2012 Sep 25;109(39):15531-2.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1212718109. Epub 2012 Sep 14.

¹ Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA. jhawks@wisc.edu

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The author declares no conflict of interest.

Generation times in wild chimpanzees and gorillas suggest earlier divergence times in great ape and human evolution.
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