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Homo sapiens

Chordata › Mammalia › Primates › Hominidae

23haploid

Diploid number in the source: 46

Closest relatives

No other species in Homo. Species in the same family, Hominidae:

Sources

  1. Pellicciari, C., E. Ronchetti, D. Formenti, R. Stanyon, and M.G. Manfredi Romanini (1990a). Genome size and "C-heterochromatic-DNA" in man and the African apes. Human Evolution 5: 261-267
  2. Ashman, T. L., Bachtrog, D., Blackmon, H., Goldberg, E. E., Hahn, M. W., Kirkpatrick, M., et al. (2014). Tree of Sex: A database of sexual systems. Scientific Data, 1, 140015.
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