Posted on 05/20/2010 11:03:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
“With thousands of sequences of DNA something must be similar some where”
Same maker perhaps???
Quite possible.
It is very interesting that some SNP’s come up as similar between different animal, humans and species. These must be truly small, atomic or sub-atomic level.
Interesting. Fascinating.
Beats the run-of-the-mill news we are so accustomed to out of Washington DC.
I'm talking here about real basic math and statistics -- you got a numerator, you got a denominator, you do the division and come up with a percentage. If I understand the first two, then I know what the last one means.
In this particular case, I do understand that 3 million base-pair differences amongst humans and Neanderthals is one-tenth of one percent of the 3 billion total.
What I don't understand is how we go from that to saying 1% or 4% of human DNA came from Neanderthals.
This is not complex math, it just in how we define our terms.
Even that math makes me want someone to get out a pencil and sit down and help me a little.... ;) I blame new math when I started 7th grade. It made me feel completely stupid.
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