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Science 19 May 1972:
Vol. 176. no. 4036, pp. 803 - 805
DOI: 10.1126/science.176.4036.803
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Primate Phylogeny and Immunological Distance

C. Owen Lovejoy 1, Albert H. Burstein 2, and Kingsbury G. Heiple 2

1 Department of Anthropology, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242
2 Biomechanics Laboratory, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106

Recalculation of the time of divergence of the Pongidae and Hominidae after correction of immunological distance by inclusion of generation length yields minimum dates of approximately 14 million years ago.


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