Kuhlwilm M de Manuel M Nater A Greminger MP Krützen M Marques-Bonet T 2016 The great apes are the closest living relatives of humans. Chimpanzees and bonobos group together with humans, while gorillas and orangutans are more divergent from humans. Here, we review insights into their evolution pertaining to the topology of species and subspecies and the reconstruction of their demography based on genome-wide variation. These advances have only become possible recently through next-generation sequencing technologies. Given the close relationship to humans, they provide an important evolutionary context for human genetics. https://sonar.ch/global/documents/161524 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1016/j.gde.2016.09.005 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/pmid/27716526 Current opinion in genetics & development. - 2016 Animals Evolution, Molecular Genome, Human Genomics Gorilla gorilla High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing Hominidae Humans Pan paniscus Pan troglodytes Pongo Evolution and demography of the great apes. http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501