Or building cities and nations? Creating art and music? Doing science?
As far as I can tell, DNA doesn't do such things. But it seems to specify certain creatures that can do such things.
Neither daffodils — having some ~24% commonality with human DNA — nor chimpanzees — having some ~98% commonality with human DNA — can do these things.
Maybe at this point folks should start wondering about what DNA is capable of telling us about the different creatures it purports to describe....
Indeed, it would appear that "Labs are among the smarter canines." At least in the canine world as it interfaces with humans....
Much wisdom in your astute observations, dear padre! Thank you ever so much!
It is a larger more resource consuming ape brain.
DNA doesn't purport to describe creatures, genetic DNA codes for a functional molecular machine called a protein.
Our molecular machines are thus over 98% the same as a chimpanzee. That doesn't indicate that our abilities are going to be 98% the same, any more than the fact that I am over 99.9% the same in DNA as Tiger Woods means I can drive a golf ball straight within 99.9% of his ability; or that because I am over 99.9% the same in DNA as Newton that I could have come up with calculus - heck some people who are 99.9% the same as Newton cannot even UNDERSTAND calculus after the fact - let alone have nearly the cognitive ability to discover it!
There is a very SMALL biological “gap” between humans and chimps, mice and rats are much more distantly related to each other than humans and chimps are.