Scientists Reveal Single Gene Is the Difference Between Humans and Apes

Medical Daily ^ | 21 November 2012 | MAKINI BRICE

[central_va]

Ok the next time we need eye bleach, this is it.

[TigersEye]

Those are either installed with bacon grease and a come-along or they're painted on.
Either way it's pinging a chromosome somewhere on my helix.

[Have Ruck - Will Travel]

Dang!!! I love genetics.

[stboz]

Well I’ll be a monkey’s uncle.

Does that mean apes are descended from humans?

God works in mysterious ways...very mysterious.

[bobby.223]

Now there is a post I’ll bet some DUmper puts up over there on that site as ‘proof’ FReepers are knuckle dragging racists. Not that I really give a hoot what those clowns think but just sayin’. Flame away folks!

[redfreedom]

You will never get me to believe there’s only one gene difference between those sweeties and an ape, but I want proof, I think they should take their genes off so we can look.

[PA Engineer]

Hmmm.

[Gator113]

Yes. First they devolved into democrats, then they grew hair and learned to live in the trees, make funny noises and scream for no apparent reason.

This is why I don’t eat bananas in public, they’ll steal them right out of your hand.

[VanShuyten]

Whatever that gene does, it wasn’t fully expressed in a couple of friends of mine. I used to think they just had more Neanderthal than most Europeans.

[verga]

Looking at the “People of Walmart” site I am saying that maybe not even that much.

[hinckley buzzard]

The very idea of "junk DNA" has been junk science since its inception. This study verifies that we remain largely ignorant of how these strings of protein actually operate, even though we can map their molecules. The tweaking of one gene is the tip of the functional iceberg.

[hinckley buzzard]

That's weird. Why do they have those black things attached to their crotches?

[faithhopecharity]

this “human” ape gene works a lot better in some people these days than others...

[JoeProBono]

[Wonder Warthog]

"Well I’ll be a monkey’s uncle."

More correctly.....a monkey was your uncle (actually great x 10^4 or 5 uncle).

[Chode]

must be Papa in the middle flanked by the Oom Mow Mows

[Gator113]

;>)

[wrench]

Very nice, but how many horses did you see?

[Greg123456]

The “scientists” monkeyed around with the data!

[Erasmus]

And a lot of them get CPUs that were binned out for low speed operation.