I’ve never understood how 96 or 98% similarity demonstrates that humans evolved from Chimps or a common ancestor in the relative recent past.
If evolution has been going on for 600 my, and the Chimp/human divergence occured 3 mya, shouldn’t we expect the difference to be something like 597/600 which is 99.5%?
And if we allow for the fact that generation-to-generation inheritance (and thus rate of evolution) in higher-order mammals is absolutely glacial relative to older life forms that came before, shouldn’t the difference be greatly reduced even further? All things being equal, I would expect similarity of more than 99.9%
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