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To: allmendream

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“Comparative analyses of multiple alignments of small fragments of human, chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan sequence have revealed that the human genome is more similar to the gorilla genome than to the chimpanzee genome for a considerable fraction of single genes [2,13–15].”


330 posted on 12/02/2008 9:58:50 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts

Yes, a “considerable fraction of single genes” are more similar between humans and gorillas than between humans and chimps. Not the majority.

This is predictable based upon the small amount of total difference in genetic DNA. Humans and chimps are about 1-2% different, and humans and gorillas are about 2-3% different, there is some overlap there making a “considerable fraction of single genes” more similar between humans and gorillas than humans and chimps; but obviously not the majority. The data clearly doesn’t show that chimps and gorillas are closer than chimps and humans, the data clearly shows a divergence time between chimps and humans as being less than the divergence time between gorillas and chimps.


332 posted on 12/02/2008 10:15:24 AM PST by allmendream (Wealth is EARNED not distributed.... so how could it be Redistributed?)
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