Posted on 09/02/2005 5:54:45 AM PDT by nfldgirl
I descended from a mouse.
Well, there you go. That just proves that chimpanzees evolved from humans.
I like that this report focuses on the differences.
Similar does not mean the same.
It is long been know that other animals and humans have very similar genetic structures. If you do the gene sequencing between humans and lets say a horse, you will find many of the same gene sequences as well.
The big and major difference is that 4%. What the article fails to detail is that the 4% accounts for extended brain functions, speech, reasoning, etc. Those make big differences in the grand scheme of things.
Some animals are more equal than others...........and so are some people...........
Maybe that is why I make funny noises when I scratch my armpits.
Silicon used for making computer chips must be pure to something like 12 decimal places (99.999 999 999 999% pure). When I was in college taking physical electronics (dealung with a lot of quantum theory) one of the excercises was to see what effect contamination of one part in a BILLION would make. The result was that it would basically render the batch unuseable.
I suspect that 4% difference between chimps and humans is MUCH more than they are willing to admit. Literally it is the difference between constructin a vessel that will take men to the moon and back and swinging in trees and then picking fleas off each other's back (sorry if I offended tre swinging, flea picking 'Rats).
Of the 5,000 best-known human genes, 75% have matches in the worm.
Ref: 2000 Election, 2004 Election
4% is huge. All species on the planet are very genetically similar simply because we all exist in the same carbon/oxygen/nitrogen environment, and are carbon-based ourselves. We wouldn't be able to survive on the planet otherwise.
96% really means nothing when 90% of the similarity is based on the characteristics animals need just to exist on Earth.
That's f*ckin gross, don't ever do that again..
98% identical in New Orleans.
Fortunately it looks like the divorce will happen before there are kids involved.
Hey, evolution is a long process, remember? Some apes haven't quite caught up yet..
True, but the difference may be small enough that we will soon have bioengineered chimps that are obviously self-aware and that communicate with human-like language.
All kinds of ethical hell is gonna break loose then.
This one, number 57, seems of interest.
Whoever told you that somehow human DNA is "50% identical" to that of a tomato, or that human and oranges "share 75% of DNA", either didn't know what in the heck they were talking about, or were being dishonest.
Do not be so confident. There are indirect ways of raising chimps to higher linguistic levels, like genetically lengthening their adolescence. You don't have to be able to understand or engineer even 10% of that 4% to make some serious monkey business.
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