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. 2019 May 15;5(5):eaaw1268. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aaw1268

Fig. 2. Branch-specific evolutionary rates obtained through the analysis of phylogeny-1.

Fig. 2

(A) Evolutionary rates obtained when setting the SH–modern human divergence time at 0.5 Ma ago. (B) Rates obtained when setting this divergence at 0.9 Ma ago, which is the scenario associated with the minimum SD of all the rates across the tree. (C) Rates obtained when setting divergence at 1.4 Ma ago. SH–modern human divergence times older than 1.4 Ma ago result in even higher rates for the branch antedating the SH–modern human separation, referred to in the following figures as the LCA branch. Evolutionary rates are provided above each branch (gray for rates that remain roughly constant in all scenarios, and black for rates associated with the Neanderthal–modern human clade, which are affected by changes in the SH–modern human divergence time).