Nonadaptive processes in primate and human evolution
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Nonadaptive processes in primate and human evolution.
Evolutionary biology has tended to focus on adaptive evolution by positive selection as the primum mobile of evolutionary trajectories in species while underestimating the importance of nonadaptive evolutionary processes. In this review, I describe evidence that suggests that primate and human evolution has been strongly influenced by nonadaptive processes, particularly random genetic drift and...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Physical Anthropology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0002-9483
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21439