{"56425":{"#nid":"56425","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Soojin Yi\\\u0027s Research on Human-chimp Interbreeding Featured in Nature","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ENature\u003C\/em\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EChimps are more promiscuous than humans and thus may have higher mutation rates in their males\u0027 DNA.ALAMY. A genetic analysis has called into question the controversial claim that early humans and chimpanzees interbred before splitting into separate species. \u0022Many evolutionary biologists were pretty skeptical\u0022 about the interbreeding scenario, says evolutionary geneticist Soojin Yi of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. She argues that her explanation \u2014 which stems from promiscuity differences among primate species \u2014 is \u0022simpler and hence more likely\u0022....  Now Yi, together with Daven Presgraves of the University of Rochester, have reanalysed the data and suggest that species differences in the levels of female promiscuity can account for the chromosomal inconsistency. The original hypothesis is \u0022way more of a headache for evolutionary biologists\u0022, says Yi. The data \u0022can also be explained very well by well-established ideas in molecular evolution\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2009\/090828\/full\/news.2009.870.html\u0027\u003EFull article\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www.yilab.gatech.edu\/\u0027\u003ESoojin Yi lab\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Research on Human-chimp interbreeding from the lab of Soojin Yi,PhD, evolutionary geneticist in School of Biology at Georgia Tech, featured in Nature.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Soojin Yi\u0027s Research on Human-chimp Interbreeding Featured in N"}],"uid":"27195","created_gmt":"2009-08-31 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:06","author":"Colly Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-08-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-08-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"56426":{"id":"56426","type":"image","title":"Soojin Yi - Assistant Professor, School of Biology","body":null,"created":"1449175629","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:47:09","changed":"1475894501","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:41","alt":"Soojin Yi - Assistant Professor, School of Biology","file":{"fid":"190469","name":"tca36729.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tca36729_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tca36729_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1910,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tca36729_0.jpg?itok=Q8lEEXHn"}}},"media_ids":["56426"],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"277","name":"Biology"},{"id":"9546","name":"Evolutionary geneticism"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"9547","name":"human-chimp interbreeding"},{"id":"248","name":"IBB"},{"id":"168087","name":"Soojin Yi"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EColly Mitchell\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=cmitchell6\u0022\u003EContact Colly Mitchell\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-5982\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["colly.mitchell@ibb.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}