[Carry_Okie]

Well in the Flood story there were eight people left after the flood to populate the world, but only two chimps. I wonder how that would explain the chimps having more genetic diversity when they started with a smaller gene pool in the first place. The Noah story helps not a bit here . . . sorry.

There's nothing quite like a gross over-simplification that fails its own supporting theory upon inspection.

The replicative cycle of chimps is shorter than the typical human. There would have been many more generations of chimps than people in the intervening period from a common singularity greatly exceeding the distinctions of four to one. Try again, and no, I am not a Biblical literalist.

[Rushian]

I tried this explanation earlier, but it didn't seem to sink in.

[realpatriot71]

I was hasty, and forgot about the generation times of chimps. I'm still searching how much affect generation time has on rate of mutation, and whether this is enough to give the significant amount of variation seen in chimps versus humans from a gene pool the size of that after the flood.