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SCIENCE
Volume 354, Issue 6311, Pages 477-481Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.aag2602
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- Formacio de personal Investigador fellowship from Generalitat de Catalunya [FI_B01111]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft fellowship [KU 3467/1-1]
- Swiss National Science Foundation [31003A-143393, 310030B-16660]
- Gates Cambridge Trust
- Ramon y Cajal grant from Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO) [RYC-2013-14797]
- MINECO grant [BFU2015-68759-P]
- Estonian Research Council [PUT1036]
- Max Planck Society
- Wellcome Trust [098051]
- Maria de Maeztu Programme [MDM-2014-0370]
- Isaac Newton Trust/Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund Joint Research Grant
- U.S. NIH [U01CA198933, MH106874]
- Swiss National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship
- MINECO [BFU2015-68649-P, BFU2014-55090-P, BFU2015-7116-ERC, BFU2015-6215-ERCU01]
- Krekeler Foundation
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [31003A_143393] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
- ICREA Funding Source: Custom
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Our closest living relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, have a complex demographic history. We analyzed the high-coverage whole genomes of 75 wild-born chimpanzees and bonobos from 10 countries in Africa. We found that chimpanzee population substructure makes genetic information a good predictor of geographic origin at country and regional scales. Multiple lines of evidence suggest that gene flow occurred from bonobos into the ancestors of central and eastern chimpanzees between 200,000 and 550,000 years ago, probably with subsequent spread into Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzees. Together with another, possibly more recent contact (after 200,000 years ago), bonobos contributed less than 1% to the central chimpanzee genomes. Admixture thus appears to have been widespread during hominid evolution.
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