[gleeaikin]

I was hoping you would post the graph near the end of the article, it shows a much wider spread. Could you do that? While gorillas may be very smart, the are even farther from us than the chimps. The subspecies of chimp called the Bonobo, is closer to us than other chimps. I think I saw the figure 1.6% difference as opposed to 2%. They even like to make love face to face, unlike the other chimps.

[allmendream]

[allmendream]

Chimps (pan pan and pan bonobo) share a recent common ancestor with humans from the same time - they share a much more recent common ancestor with each other. 1.6% is often rounded up to 2% - it is roughly the same amount of difference between human and panpan and human and panbonobo - reflecting the same time of most recent common ancestry.

Yes, we thought WE were the ape that liked sex the most until we saw what those bonobos were doing. They like it face to face, face in the dirt, face to my stuff, your stuff in my face, stuff to stuff (female on female), etc, etc. Kinky little bastards!

[allmendream]

Chimps are an excellent example of speciation also - and show exactly the genetic marks one would expect from animals of common ancestry. It is a pattern - in miniature - of the same markers that show our common ancestry with both species.

These markers can also be seen in dogs and wolves - two creatures of known common ancestry.

These same markers are seen in human populations of various degrees of common ancestry.

They follow the pattern predicted by the theory. Time and time again.

Apparently once there was just one population of chimps - then a river jumped its bed and ran through the middle of their range. Chimps don't swim the river.

DNA differences accumulate in separate populations over time - and over that time - chimp panpan and chimp bonobo became physically distinct with different innate characteristics - like having sex out of estrus and face to face and rather frequently as a way of ‘lubricating’ social interactions. Chimp panpan don't do that!