Orangutan DNA offers a strange genetic mystery
Orangutans, the most distant of our great ape relatives, changed less in 15 million years than our species has in 200,000. And yet orangutans also have tremendous genetic diversity, an apparent contradiction that has created a strange evolutionary riddle. The family Hominidae, commonly known as the Great Apes, has four main members: humans, chimpanzees, gorillas,…
