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To: allmendream
Yeah I do know what it means. I posted this once before on FR so there's no real excuse for you or others to be going on with this bullshit.
69 posted on 05/12/2011 3:25:35 PM PDT by wendy1946
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To: wendy1946

Obviously not.

A single order of magnitude change of a 2% genetic difference would be 20% - can you show me a single source that says humans and chimps genetic DNA is 20% different?

ORDERS of magnitude different would be 200% different as a minimum in genetic DNA. You do realize that 100% difference is the max, right?


70 posted on 05/12/2011 3:29:56 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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To: wendy1946
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v463/n7280/abs/nature08700.html

Absolute idiocy. First of all the MSY is the male specific region of the Y chromosome and a mixture of both genetic and genomic DNA. Secondly it has long been known that the Y chromosome changes much more rapidly than other chromosomes. Thirdly - nothing in that showed what you claimed.

“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.”

More like....

Recent findings show the difference between humans and chimps (in the MSY region of the Y chromome) to be (significantly larger) than (other chromosomal DNA, but it was expected to be).

The difference between your average human gene and its chimp counterpart is still only 2%. The genes have been sequenced. You can go on pubmed and “blast” the sequences and see for yourself, if you cared to not take my word (or the word of a thousand other scientists) for it.

71 posted on 05/12/2011 3:40:07 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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