NSF grant funds kent state anthropology professor's study of primate evolution

(Kent State University) Anthony Tosi, Ph.D., assistant professor of anthropology at Kent State University, received a NSF grant to study primate evolution and whether a species' genetic makeup includes genes brought together through occasional episodes of hybridization. Are we an amalgamation of DNA from a variety of interbreeding species? Did such hybridization happen throughout the 7 million years of human evolution? Tosi will collaborate with researchers from New York University and Pennsylvania State University to address such questions.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news