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Archaic human genomicsTodd R Disotell
Center for Study of Human Origins, Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
Am J Phys Anthropol 149:24-39. 2012..More thorough sampling of modern human diversity, additional fossil discoveries, and the sequencing of additional hominin fossils are necessary to throw light onto our origins and our history...
Panmixia postponed: ancestry-related assortative mating in contemporary human populationsAndrew S Burrell
Center for the Study of Human Origins, Department of Anthropology, New York University, 25 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10003, USA
Genome Biol 10:245. 2009..The cause of this surprising bias remains unclear...- No evidence of a Neanderthal contribution to modern human diversityJason A Hodgson
Center for the Study of Human Origins, Department of Anthropology, New York University, Waverly Place, New York, NY 10003, USA
Genome Biol 9:206. 2008..Here we review the available evidence and find no indication of any Neanderthal contribution to modern genetic diversity... - Demographic changes and marker properties affect detection of human population differentiationJennifer B Listman
Dept Anthropology, New York Univ, NY, USA
BMC Genet 8:21. 2007.... - Regionally and climatically restricted patterns of distribution of genetic diversity in a migratory bat species, Miniopterus schreibersii (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)Rasit Bilgin
Institute of Environmental Sciences, Bogazici University, Bebek 34342, Istanbul, Turkey
BMC Evol Biol 8:209. 2008.... - A mobile element-based evolutionary history of guenons (tribe Cercopithecini)Jinchuan Xing
Department of Biological Sciences, Biological Computation and Visualization Center, Center for Bio Modular Multi Scale Systems, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
BMC Biol 5:5. 2007..SINEs are a class of non-autonomous mobile elements and are essentially homoplasy-free characters with known ancestral states, making them useful genetic markers for phylogenetic studies... - The monkey's perspectiveTodd R Disotell
Department of Anthropology, New York University, Waverly Place, New York, NY 10003, USA
Genome Biol 8:226. 2007..The sequencing of the genome of a female rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) of Indian origin will provide us with biomedical and evolutionary insights into both humans and Old World monkeys... - 'Chumanzee' evolution: the urge to diverge and mergeTodd R Disotell
Center for the Study of Human Origins, Department of Anthropology, New York University, Waverly Place, New York, NY 10003, USA
Genome Biol 7:240. 2006..A recent analysis of the human and chimpanzee genomes compared with portions of other primate genomes suggests that the divergence of the human and chimpanzee lineages beginning around 6 million years ago was not a simple clean split... 
Human evolution: origins of modern humans still look recentT R Disotell
Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York, New York, 10003, USA
Curr Biol 9:R647-50. 1999..But DNA sequences from an extinct neanderthal, and phylogenetic analyses of hundreds of human and ape sequences, continue to support a recent origin for modern humans...- Human genomic variationT R Disotell
Department of Anthropology, New York University, 25 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10003, USA
Genome Biol 1:COMMENT2004. 2000..The recent completion and assembly of the first draft of the human genome, which combines samples from several ethnically diverse males and females, provides preliminary data on the extent of human genetic variation... - Molecular anthropology and raceT R Disotell
Department of Anthropology, New York University, 25 Waverly Place, New York, New York 10003, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 925:9-24. 2000..Further sampling of all of the regions of the human genome has led to a remarkably consistent evolutionary scenario that helps to explain the patterns of variation found today... - Discovering human history from stomach bacteriaTodd R Disotell
Department of Anthropology, New York University, 25 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10003, USA
Genome Biol 4:213. 2003..Phylogenetic trees of strains of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and the polyoma JC virus taken from geographically diverse groups of human beings correlate closely with relationships of the populations in which they are found... - Primate evolution - in and out of AfricaC B Stewart
Department of Biological Sciences University at Albany State University of New York 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York, 12222, USA
Curr Biol 8:R582-8. 1998.... - X-chromosomal window into the evolutionary history of the guenons (Primates: Cercopithecini)Anthony J Tosi
Center for the Study of Human Origins, Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
Mol Phylogenet Evol 36:58-66. 2005..The divergence of guenon and papionin lineages at 11.5 (+/-1.3) MYA appears to be a particularly robust estimate since it is inferred from both mitochondrial and X-chromosomal studies, each using different fossil calibration points... - Phylogenetic incongruence between nuclear and mitochondrial markers in the Asian colobines and the evolution of the langurs and leaf monkeysNelson Ting
Anthropology Program, City University of New York Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA
Mol Phylogenet Evol 46:466-74. 2008..05). We suggest that differential lineage sorting or ancient hybridization may be the cause of this strong discordance between the mitochondrial and X-chromosomal markers in these taxa... - Cercopithecine Y-chromosome data provide a test of competing morphological evolutionary hypothesesAnthony J Tosi
Department of Anthropology, Molecular Anthropology Laboratory, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
Mol Phylogenet Evol 27:510-21. 2003..the "African papionins." Divergence dates were therefore calculated for the tribe by calibrating TSPY clocks specific to each of these two clades... - Toward resolution of the debate regarding purported crypto-Jews in a Spanish-American population: evidence from the Y chromosomeWesley K Sutton
Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York 10003, USA
Ann Hum Biol 33:100-11. 2006..Despite ethnographic criticisms, the notion of substantial crypto-Jewish ancestry among Spanish-Americans persists... - Mitochondrial evidence for the hybrid origin of the kipunji, Rungwecebus kipunji (Primates: Papionini)Andrew S Burrell
Department of Anthropology, Center for the Study of Human Origins, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
Mol Phylogenet Evol 51:340-8. 2009..More such cases can be anticipated as molecular evidence accumulates... - Sex chromosome phylogenetics indicate a single transition to terrestriality in the guenons (tribe Cercopithecini)Anthony J Tosi
Department of Anthropology, New York University, NY 10003, USA
J Hum Evol 46:223-37. 2004.... - Catarrhine primate divergence dates estimated from complete mitochondrial genomes: concordance with fossil and nuclear DNA evidenceRyan L Raaum
New York University, Department of Anthropology, 25 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10003, USA
J Hum Evol 48:237-57. 2005..p. abelii, 4.1 (3.5-4.7) Ma; and Pan troglodytes-P. paniscus, 2.4 (2.0-2.7) Ma. These dates were similar to those found using penalized likelihood on other subsets of the data, but slightly younger than several of the Bayesian estimates... - Molecular evidence for deep phylogenetic divergence in Mandrillus sphinxP T Telfer
Department of Anthropology, New York University, 25 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10003, USA
Mol Ecol 12:2019-24. 2003..The haplotype distribution is also concordant with that of two known mandrill simian immunodeficiency viruses, suggesting that these two mandrill phylogroups have followed different evolutionary trajectories since separation... - Mitochondrial evidence for the origin of hamadryas baboonsDerek E Wildman
Department of Anthropology, New York Univesity, USA
Mol Phylogenet Evol 32:287-96. 2004..The mitochondrial paraphyly of Ethiopian hamadryas and anubis (P. anubis) baboons suggests an extensive and complex history of sex-specific introgression... - Nuclear gene trees and the phylogenetic relationships of the mangabeys (Primates: Papionini)E E Harris
Department of Anthropology, New York University, USA
Mol Biol Evol 15:892-900. 1998..Several factors that may account for this incongruence are discussed, including sampling error, random lineage sorting, and introgression... - Neandertal genome: the ins and outs of African genetic diversityJason A Hodgson
Center for the Study of Human Origins, Department of Anthropology, New York University, 25 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10003, USA
Curr Biol 20:R517-9. 2010..This surprising result is difficult to reconcile with current models of human origins and might have to do with insufficient African sampling... - Mitochondrial data support an odd-nosed colobine cladeKirstin N Sterner
Department of Anthropology, New York University, 25 Waverly Place, New York, NY, USA
Mol Phylogenet Evol 40:1-7. 2006..This phylogenetic information will aid those developing conservation strategies for these highly endangered, diverse, and unique primates... - Successive radiations, not stasis, in the South American primate faunaJason A Hodgson
Center for the Study of Human Origins, Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:5534-9. 2009..We note that the crown platyrrhine radiation was concomitant with the radiation of 2 South American xenarthran lineages and follows a global temperature peak and tectonic activity in the Andes... - A mobile element based phylogeny of Old World monkeysJinchuan Xing
Department of Biological Sciences, Biological Computation and Visualization Center, Center for Bio-Modular Multi-Scale Systems, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
Mol Phylogenet Evol 37:872-80. 2005..Relationships among all major clades are in general agreement with other molecular and morphological data sets but have stronger statistical support... - Evolution of base-substitution gradients in primate mitochondrial genomesSameer Z Raina
Department of Biological Sciences, Biological Computation and Visualization Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
Genome Res 15:665-73. 2005..The placements of the tarsier and the tree shrew within and in relation to primates may be incorrect because of convergence in these factors...