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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Hominid Evolution"”.
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Landscapes of the apes: modelling landscape use of chimpanzees and early hominins across an environmental gradient.
… landscapes also played a vital role in human evolution, but evidence on early hominin behaviour remains limited. Chimpanzee responses to changing landscapes may provide new insights into early hominin landscape use due to chimpanzees’ close relatedness to humans. This thesis used …
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Inferring Genomic Histories of Structured Populations: Lessons from the Hominids
Demography is a major determinant of the variation of species. Understanding how it effects the genetic composition of populations allows us to infer history from genetic data. I contribute to this project in three ways. First, I estimate the historical trajectories of effective population size in …
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Using 3-D Geometric Morphometric Techniques to Further Understand the Relationship Between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens
The relationship between hominids in the middle and late Pleistocene has been a heated subject of debate since Neanderthals were first recognized. Neanderthals are either a distinctly separate species from Homo sapiens that were replaced by Homo sapiens without any genetic interaction, which …
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Using 3-D Geometric Morphometric Techniques to Further Understand the Relationship Between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens
The relationship between hominids in the middle and late Pleistocene has been a heated subject of debate since Neanderthals were first recognized. Neanderthals are either a distinctly separate species from Homo sapiens that were replaced by Homo sapiens without any genetic interaction, which …
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Statistical analysis of short template switch mutations in human genomes
… variant calling. However, the genomic and evolutionary consequences of replication-based rearrangements remain poorly characterised at smaller scales, where they are usually interpreted as complex clusters of independent substitutions, insertions and deletions. In this thesis, I describe …