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To: mountainlion

Recent findings show the difference between humans and chimps to be orders of magnitude larger than was thought up until a year or two ago. Chimps and gorillas (and hominids for that matter) are/were intelligent enough, but they are unrelated to us other than possibly via similar design parameters. Dolphins and whales are bright enough for that matter, but are clearly not related to us.


66 posted on 05/12/2011 3:09:47 PM PDT by wendy1946
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To: wendy1946
Do you even know what “orders of magnitude larger” means?

For example, the difference between human and chimp genetic DNA is around 2%.

A SINGLE order of magnitude larger would be 20%.

ORDERS of magnitude larger would be 200% at least. An impossibility.

Also, you are wrong either through lies or confusion. When the genome was sequenced the difference over the entire genome (only some 3% of the genome is genetic DNA) is some 6-10%.

That is, for one thing, not even a single order of magnitude larger, and also - absolutely expected.

Genetic DNA is more highly conserved between species and doesn't change much within a species over time - while non-Genetic DNA is less conserved between species and changes much more rapidly within a species over time.

As such it is entirely expected (unless you are an idiot hoping to score futile points in a game you barely understand) that the difference between humans and chimps, being 2% in genetic DNA, would be at least three times as different over the entire genome.

68 posted on 05/12/2011 3:22:29 PM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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