Good_Burning_Plastic comments on What degree of cousins are you and I? Estimates of Consanguinity to promote feelings of kinship and empathy

[Good_Burning_Plastic]

Mice are more closely related to chimps and us than to dogs.

[chaosmage]

Sure.

I didn’t mean to say that I care about animals exactly as much as I’m related to them. There are many exceptions. (Yay tardigrades!) I’m just saying the correlation seems good enough to be worth noticing.