[mlc9852]

I descended from a mouse.

[Brilliant]

Well, there you go. That just proves that chimpanzees evolved from humans.

[austinite]

Proof: Rep. Waxman

[magnieye]

I like that this report focuses on the differences.

Similar does not mean the same.

It is long been know that other animals and humans have very similar genetic structures. If you do the gene sequencing between humans and lets say a horse, you will find many of the same gene sequences as well.

The big and major difference is that 4%. What the article fails to detail is that the 4% accounts for extended brain functions, speech, reasoning, etc. Those make big differences in the grand scheme of things.

[PositiveCogins]

4 percent of a 3bn character genome is quite a lot of difference. Just being a mammal is probably 2bn in its self.

[Red Badger]

Some animals are more equal than others...........and so are some people...........

[razoroccam]

Maybe that is why I make funny noises when I scratch my armpits.

[Theo]

Of the 5,000 best-known human genes, 75% have matches in the worm.

[buckeye27]

That 4% can spell lots of trouble. After all, most media polls have a margin of error of 3-4% and look at how accurate they are...

Ref: 2000 Election, 2004 Election

[DefiantZERO]

4% is huge. All species on the planet are very genetically similar simply because we all exist in the same carbon/oxygen/nitrogen environment, and are carbon-based ourselves. We wouldn't be able to survive on the planet otherwise.

96% really means nothing when 90% of the similarity is based on the characteristics animals need just to exist on Earth.

[DTogo]

98% identical in New Orleans.

[Jeff Blogworthy]

I love this quote, prompted by the "news":

Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes—he didn't go far enough. We are apes in every way, from our long arms and tailless bodies to our habits and temperament. -- Frans de Waal, primate scientist at Emory University

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/0831_050831_chimp_genes.html

Are you kidding me?

[VadeRetro]

Earlier thread with 116 replies.

This one, number 57, seems of interest.

Whoever told you that somehow human DNA is "50% identical" to that of a tomato, or that human and oranges "share 75% of DNA", either didn't know what in the heck they were talking about, or were being dishonest.

[LIConFem]

Who who who who you callin' a monkey!?!?!

;o)

[11th Commandment]

The preliminary evidence suggests that the outstanding size and complexity of the human brain owes less to the evolution of new human genes than to the different way existing genes produce proteins as the human brain grows in the foetus and during infancy.

In other words, how the DNA is sequenced is the key to distinguishing species, not the amount of DNA. Sequencing is not explained by evolution....

[NavyCanDo]

In that remaining 4% their are millions of differences.

APES ARE APES AND MAN IS MAN

Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Poe White Trash]

>>> “Chimp and human DNA is 96% identical” <<<

“IS”?

Apparently, headlines for the _Financial Times_ are proofread by a chimp!