John Harshman: Bottlenecks and Trans-Species Variation

And I had such hopes for you. Why not? If one sums the alleles shared between humans and chimps, humans and gorillas, humans and orangutans, etc., it comes to more than 4.

But my more urgent question is on the meaning of genetic and genealogical sole-progenitorship, particularly the latter. Either they don’t really mean “sole” or you have a scenario I haven’t seen yet.

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