Common Ancestry is the phylogenetic hypothesis that two or more distinct biological taxa share a historical origin through descent from a single ancestral population or organism at some point in evolutionary time.
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The Genetic Structure and History of Africans and African Americans
Sarah A. Tishkoff, Floyd A. Reed, Françoise R. Friedlaender et al. · Science · 2009 · 1.6K citations · Full text
Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans
Iosif Lazaridis, Nick Patterson, Alissa Mittnik et al. · Nature · 2014 · 1.5K citations · Full text
African Populations and the Evolution of Human Mitochondrial DNA
Linda Vigilant, Mark Stoneking, Henry Harpending et al. · Science · 1991 · 1.4K citations
Resolution of the Early Placental Mammal Radiation Using Bayesian Phylogenetics
William J. Murphy, Eduardo Eizirik, Stephen J. O’Brien et al. · Science · 2001 · 1.3K citations
The physiology and habitat of the last universal common ancestor
Madeline C. Weiss, Filipa L. Sousa, Natalia Mrnjavac et al. · Nature Microbiology · 2016 · 1.1K citations · Full text
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Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
23 publications · 3.7K citations
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Harvard University
Cambridge, United States
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280 publications
39.1K citations
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Leipzig, Germany
32 h-index
129 publications
29.9K citations
Stanford University
Stanford, United States
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138 publications
23.7K citations
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Paris, France
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138 publications
13.6K citations
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom
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79 publications
17.5K citations
University College London
London, United Kingdom
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49 publications
10.1K citations
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
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Pennsylvania State University
State College, United States
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- Molecular Biology and Evolution
MBE · 51 publications · 5.6K citations
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- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
PNAS · 33 publications · 4.8K citations
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- The American Journal of Human Genetics
AJHG · 33 publications · 5.6K citations
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- PLoS ONE
39 publications · 3.6K citations
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- American Journal of Physical Anthropology
45 publications · 2.3K citations
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