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To: GodGunsGuts

You are still trying to argue that any overlap that puts humans closer to gorillas outweighs the overwhelming pattern of human and chimp’s greater similarity.

Once again your selective quotation of data does not reflect the authors conclusions.

http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/24/10/2266

In summary, our study highlights the extent and implications of the intertwined genetic relationships between humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas. Clearly, a comprehensive understanding of how humans evolved their unique characteristics, which distinguishes them from all other extant species, depends essentially on our knowledge of the evolutionary history of our genes. From this perspective, an extensive sequencing of the gorilla genome will be required to make full use of the chimpanzee genome sequence on the way toward a map of our genetic ancestry.


348 posted on 12/03/2008 9:29:34 AM PST by allmendream (Wealth is EARNED not distributed.... so how could it be Redistributed?)
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To: allmendream

Face it, dreamer, your so-called open-and-shut case just went up in smoke (again). And this is just the beginning. Just wait and see. Evolutionary biology is a subjective mess, and it will only get worse because God’s Creation resists evolutionary explanations (from the paper):

“Thus, in two-thirds of the cases, a genealogy results in which humans and chimpanzees are not each other’s closest genetic relatives.”

And then there is this...Take out the obligatory Darwiniac “closest living relative” faith statement, and I would say that 23% is creating splitting headaches all across the worldwide Temple of Darwin:

“For about 23% of our genome, we share no immediate genetic ancestry with our closest living relative, the chimpanzee.”


350 posted on 12/03/2008 10:24:22 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
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