Human Evolution
The evidence for evolution applied to our own species: hominin fossils, chromosome 2, retroviral insertions, broken genes, and ancient DNA.
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Fossil Evidence
Genetic Evidence
- Chromosome 2Human chromosome 2 carries the telomere and centromere remnants of a fusion of two ancestral ape chromosomes.
- Human Endogenous RetrovirusesHumans and chimpanzees share roughly 200,000 viral insertions at identical positions, and the most recent ones are still spreading through living populations.
- Pseudogenes in the Human GenomeHumans carry broken genes for vitamin C, egg yolk protein, and sialic acid conversion, disabled by the same mutations as in other primates.
- Ancient DNASequenced Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes show interbreeding, and their DNA is present in living people.