In particular, it explains that humans have one fewer chromosome pair in their cells than apes, due to a mutation found in chromosome number 2 that caused two chromosomes to fuse into one.

Specifically, Wilson compared the number of chromosomes in the regular somatic ... and they are also summarized in Table 2: ...

Apart from this reduction in chromosome number, meiosis differs from mitosis ... termed the metaphase plate (Figure 2). As the new chromosomes reach the spindle during telophase I, the cytoplasm ...