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An infant chimpanzee.
Many of the differences between humans and our closest living relative are likely to be the result of natural selection acting on genes. However, a nonadaptive process unrelated to natural selection may have driven evolution in some of the genes that have changed the most since our common ancestor with chimpanzees (see Berglund et al., e1000026).
Image Credit: Owen Booth
Citation: (2009) PLoS Biology Issue Image | Vol. 7(1) January 2009. PLoS Biol 7(1): ev07.i01. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pbio.v07.i01
Published: January 27, 2009
Copyright: © 2009 Owen Booth. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Many of the differences between humans and our closest living relative are likely to be the result of natural selection acting on genes. However, a nonadaptive process unrelated to natural selection may have driven evolution in some of the genes that have changed the most since our common ancestor with chimpanzees (see Berglund et al., e1000026).
Image Credit: Owen Booth