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Maximum likelihood estimate and confidence region for ancient human effective population size (NA) under a three-parameter demographic model. Estimates for chimpanzee and gorilla effective population size are from ref. 21. The error bar and date range for NA and t are from the two-parameter 95% confidence region (with NM fixed at 8,500 individuals).
