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The author thanks Dr. Belaid Moa of Compute Canada/WestGrid for considerable assistance and two anonymous referees for their review of the first version of this paper.
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Taylor, J.S. Did Neanderthals and Denisovans have Our De Novo Genes?. J Mol Evol 78, 321–323 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00239-014-9628-x
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