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The lineage’s estimated split is approximately 10 million years, with mitochondrial and nuclear divergence supporting deep separation. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: A new species of Heremites Gray, 1845 (Squamata, Scincidae) from the transboundary Hindu Kush foothills · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:4143efcfdb679edc0c59726238e0d32bb768e2b6c1ef29d7b35fb87fa0b641da

The Hindu Kush lineage is inferred to be deeply divergent ... with an estimated split in the Late Miocene at approximately 10 Mya. This deep mitochondrial divergence is further supported by concordant structuring in the nuclear allele networks.