Saturday, March 19, 2011

Our Primate Family Tree

Polina Perelman from the Laboratory of Genomic Diversity at the National Cancer Institute and her team has sequenced genes from 186 species of primates and tightened up the primate family tree. You can see the tree here and check out Ed Yong's slide show at Not Exactly Rocket Science here. If you're feeling really ambitious, you can read Perelman's paper here.