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Chimp and human DNA is 96% identical
Financial Times ^
| August 31 2005
| Clive Cookson, Science Editor
Posted on 09/02/2005 5:54:45 AM PDT by nfldgirl
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To: Spike Spiegel
I didn't think of that. While it is illegal to experiment on humans, what if some researchers altered the genome of chimpanzees to make them more human-like.
To: Mean Maryjean
Who who who who you callin' a monkey!?!?!
;o)
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posted on
09/02/2005 6:30:24 AM PDT
by
LIConFem
(A fronte praecipitium, a tergo lupi.)
To: Theo
Of the 5,000 best-known human genes, 75% have matches in the worm. "Ye have made your way from the worm to man, and much within you is still worm. Once were ye apes, and even yet man is more of an ape than any of the apes." (Nietzsche's Zarathustra)
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posted on
09/02/2005 6:38:01 AM PDT
by
A. Pole
(" There is no other god but Free Market, and Adam Smith is his prophet ! Bazaar Akbar! ")
To: Mean Maryjean
The preliminary evidence suggests that the outstanding size and complexity of the human brain owes less to the evolution of new human genes than to the different way existing genes produce proteins as the human brain grows in the foetus and during infancy. In other words, how the DNA is sequenced is the key to distinguishing species, not the amount of DNA. Sequencing is not explained by evolution....
To: 11th Commandment
Also interesting in how Y chromosome repair process varies wildly with species in the same morphological group.
To: 11th Commandment
In other words, how the DNA is sequenced is the key to distinguishing species, not the amount of DNA. Sequencing is not explained by evolution.... How it is sequenced? What does that mean? The change described is fully compatible with evolution
To: Mean Maryjean
In that remaining 4% their are millions of differences.
APES ARE APES AND MAN IS MAN
Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.
To: magnieye
Would it be politically incorrect to inquire what percent of genes differ between human males and females?
To: Jeff Blogworthy
"Frans de Waal, primate scientist at Emory University"
Uh...the title certainly fits!
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posted on
09/02/2005 7:49:03 AM PDT
by
DennisR
(Look around - there are countless observable clues that God exists)
To: magnieye
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.Actually, the biggest differences between chimps and humans have to do with our ability to walk bipedally and also different sexual components. Also, 96% looks low to me.
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posted on
09/02/2005 7:51:10 AM PDT
by
Alter Kaker
(Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one’s nose.-Heine)
To: GovernmentShrinker
Would it be politically incorrect to inquire what percent of genes differ between human males and females?The only genetic difference is that men have the Y chromosome and women don't.
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posted on
09/02/2005 7:52:27 AM PDT
by
Alter Kaker
(Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one’s nose.-Heine)
To: GovernmentShrinker
Would it be politically incorrect to inquire what percent of genes differ between human males and females?The Y-chromosome, btw, is by far the smallest, containing only a few genes mainly related to sperm production and parallel parking.
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posted on
09/02/2005 7:53:41 AM PDT
by
Alter Kaker
(Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one’s nose.-Heine)
To: Jeff Blogworthy
Are you kidding me?We're more closely related to chimps than chimps are to gorillas and other apes (excluding bonobos of course). We are smart, hairless, bipedal apes.
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posted on
09/02/2005 7:55:53 AM PDT
by
Alter Kaker
(Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one’s nose.-Heine)
To: Alter Kaker
I'm sure you are smart - for an ape.
To: Jeff Blogworthy
Jeff, its funny, occasionally primitive traits reemerge in descendant species as long-dormant genes become expressed. In this particular case, it appears to be the small brain and knuckle-walking locomotion of your ancestors.
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posted on
09/02/2005 8:06:31 AM PDT
by
Alter Kaker
(Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one’s nose.-Heine)
To: Alter Kaker
I think you are confused Alter. Or is it
Altar?
To: Alter Kaker
Also, 96% looks low to me. I've seen the claim that in the genes it's more like 99 percent and it's when you bring in the introns and junk that it goes down to 96. Might have been on the other thread.
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posted on
09/02/2005 8:41:05 AM PDT
by
VadeRetro
(Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
To: bobdsmith
How it is sequenced? What does that mean? The change described is fully compatible with evolutionNot according to the article.
To: 11th Commandment
Nope the article does not say that
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09/17/2009 3:18:50 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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