Review: Phytogeny 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. © 1990, The Genetics Society of Japan. All rights reserved.