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I had seen this before and maybe some of you have seen this video as well. I still find it interesting when you consider that only 1% separates us from the Chimp and as Neil asks what if that 1% went the other way.

LibrePenseur 7 June 9
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Chuck Creager Jr. wrote "This video is based in part on a lie and one Tyson should know better about. That is the often cited claim that our DNA is 98.77% identical to that of chimpanzees. Base on the paper from which this figure is based not only on substitutions. Adding sections called indels which are sections that are one genome and not the other adds another 3% reducing the similarity to 95.77% Furthermore they only compared those segments that aligned easily ignoring 18% of the chimpanzee genome and 25% of the human genome. All this results in a similarity of only 67.1%.

[nature.com]

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