%0 Journal Article
%T Hominin Evolution Was Caused by Introgression from Gorilla
%A Johan Nygren
%J Natural Science
%P 329-337
%@ 2150-4105
%D 2018
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ns.2018.109033
%X The discovery of Paranthropus deyiremeda in 3.3 - 3.5 million-year-old fossil sites in Afar, together with 30% of the gorilla genome showing lineage sorting between humans and chimpanzees, and a NUMT (”°nuclear mitochondrial DNA segment”±) on chromosome 5 that is shared by both gorillas, humans and chimpanzees, and shown to have diverged at the time of the Pan-Homo split rather than the Gorilla/Pan-Homo split, provides conclusive evidence that introgression from the gorilla lineage caused the Pan-Homo split, and the speciation of both the Australopithecus lineage and the Paranthropus lineage.
%K Anthropology
%K Australopithecus
%K Chimpanzee
%K Darwin
%K Gorilla
%K Homo
%K Introgression
%K Numt
%K Pan
%K Paranthropus
%K Pthirus
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=87215