About the Number of Base Substitutions Between Humans and Common Chimpanzees

TL;DR

This paper introduces a new distance measure called Jump distance to estimate the number of mitochondrial DNA base substitutions between humans and chimpanzees over 6 million years.

Contribution

It presents a novel distance measure, Jump distance, for estimating genetic divergence in mitochondrial DNA between species.

Findings

Estimated the number of base substitutions in mitochondrial DNA over 6 million years

Demonstrated the effectiveness of Jump distance in evolutionary analysis

Provided new insights into human-chimpanzee genetic divergence

Abstract

Humans and chimpanzees are believed to have shared a common ancestor about 6 million years ago. Here using a new distance measure called the Jump distance, we calculate the number of base substitutions that might have occurred in the mitochondrial DNA during these 6 million years.