Ice Ages and rivers may have affected gorilla diversification

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Gorillas in the Lope National Park Gabon pictured by Dr. Kathryn Jeffery director of the Gorilla and Chimpanzee Research Station in the Lope National Park. Credit: Dr. Kathryn Jeffery Wildlife Conservation Society Gabon
Gorillas in the Lope National Park, Gabon pictured by Dr. Kathryn Jeffery, director of the Gorilla and Chimpanzee Research Station in the Lope National Park. Credit: Dr. Kathryn Jeffery, Wildlife Conservation Society, Gabon

Geography and historical climate change may have both played a major role in gorilla evolutionary diversification, according to a new genetic study by Cardiff University and the University of New Orleans.


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