The largest ever study of primate genomes has unveiled surprises about humanity and our closest relatives
“The more we understand about primate genomics, the more we’ll understand about human genomics,” says primatologist Alison Behie at the Australian National University in Canberra. “There’s a potential there to do a lot more really interesting work as they grow that sample size to bring in more species.
“I am particularly proud of primatologists in Brazil and in India,” he says, because these hotspots for primate biodiversity were previously under-represented in genetic studies. “This is really a Herculean effort,” he says. but not in the archaic human relatives called Neanderthals and Denisovans, has turned out to be widespread across primates
“It’s not the present environment that neatly explains their social organization, it’s what happened in the past that’s probably equally important or even more important,” says co-author Cyril Grueter, an evolutionary anthropologist at the University of Western Australia in Perth.
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